furious - Story 53270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news seemed to knock the wind out of him. He was supposed to be a starter. He gripped the edge of the table, knuckles bone-white. The air in the room felt thin, suffocating. He wanted to scream, but the sound caught in his throat. His vision swam. He balled his hands into fists. He wanted to punch something, anything, to release the pressure building inside him. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He bit down hard on his lip, tasting blood.

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