furious - Story 53109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to control himself. He had to. But it was difficult when the replacement kept interrupting, offering suggestions. David’s shoulders were rigid, his back aching with the strain of holding everything together. He wanted to throw the report at the wall.

He forced a smile. "Yes, well," he said, his voice strained. "That's… one way to do it." But his mind was racing, a tempest of conflicting emotions. He couldn't wait to escape this office, to escape this situation.

He could feel his pulse hammering in his temples, each beat a reminder of his powerlessness. He felt the urge to jump out of the window.

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