furious - Story 53114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The swim coach’s words echoed in Maya's ears like a cruel joke. "We're going to try you in the backstroke this meet, Maya." The air seemed to compress around her. The chlorine-scented water suddenly felt suffocating. Freestyle was her event. Freestyle was where she shined.

She felt a knot tighten in her stomach. Her teeth ground together. The injustice of it all! Years of relentless training, the burn in her lungs, the ache in her muscles, all for this insult.

She managed a tight, almost inaudible "Why?" Her voice trembled. She had to get away. She turned and swam to the side of the pool, her movements jerky and unnatural. The other swimmers seemed to be watching her, and she felt exposed, vulnerable, and utterly defeated.

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