furious - Story 53128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you kidding me?” Maria practically choked on the words. Her daughter's dance recital was a defining moment and she was missing it. The flight delay meant that she would miss the performance. The thought gnawed at her, a constant and unwelcome presence.

She walked towards the window, staring out at the runway. The stationary planes appeared to mock her. Her hands were trembling and she was clenching her jaw so hard it ached.

She was on the verge of tears, overwhelmed by the injustice of the situation. Why her? Why now?

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