furious - Story 53100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at a loose piece of gravel in the driveway, the action a blatant expression of his internal turmoil. The house loomed before him, a suffocating monument to his perceived shortcomings. He was thirty-five, and living with his parents.

His father had been talking about his "glory days" again, a painful reminder of everything he hadn’t achieved. He clenched his fists, the muscles in his arms hardening with the force of his frustration.

He went to the garage and started the old car, running the engine, the roar a release for his pent up emotions. He just wanted to leave. He just wanted to disappear.

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