furious - Story 53119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You’re moving to the corner, Ben.” The coach's pronouncement about his new position on the football team felt like a slap in the face. Ben, a wide receiver, felt a wave of cold wash over him. Cornerback? He was the guy who caught the passes, the guy they threw the ball to.

He felt his stomach clench. He wanted to argue, to protest, to shout at the coach, but he forced himself to remain still. His hands were shaking. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs.

He cleared his throat, trying to regain some semblance of composure. "But…I’m a receiver.” His voice was barely above a whisper. He turned away, his jaw tight, his shoulders slumped, the coach's words a dull ache in his chest.

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