furious - Story 53228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt hot and close. Claire swatted at a cobweb that brushed her cheek. She was looking for old photo albums, nothing more. Then she saw the metal filing cabinet, tucked away in the shadows. The labels, handwritten in her mother’s meticulous script, were clear enough: “Claire - Elementary School,” “Claire - Middle School,” and so on.

Her hands were shaking as she pulled open the first drawer. Inside, neat rows of folders, each containing a year’s worth of assignments, tests, and artwork. A tremor ran through her. She felt exposed, vulnerable.

She grabbed the closest folder, ripped it open, and started flipping through the pages, her breathing shallow. She wanted to scream. She wanted to scream at her mother for imposing this upon her. She hated it.

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