furious - Story 53096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, the lines around his eyes deeper than he remembered. His hands trembled as he splashed cold water on his face, trying to cool the fire burning in his gut.

His mother had found his hidden stash of beer, and the ensuing lecture had been a low blow, full of accusations and disappointments. He had tried to explain about the job, the bills, the crushing weight of everything.

But she didn't listen. She simply saw a failure. He slammed his fist against the counter, the force making his knuckles ache. He needed to get out, he needed to breathe, but where could he go?

Emotion: furious

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -2.01 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion furious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 furious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the furious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the furious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.461
`骂`	0.376
`🤬`	0.338
`aggravated`	0.313
`est`	0.304

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.356
`de`	-0.334
`L`	-0.308
`H`	-0.301
`adventurous`	-0.256