furious - Story 53287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request popped up on her Instagram feed – "Jason Blake followed you." She was momentarily stunned. Jason Blake. The boy who had systematically isolated her from her friend group throughout middle school. The blood drained from her face.

She felt a tremor run through her body. She stood there, frozen, staring at the screen. Her hands were clammy. She clenched her jaw. She felt a need to lash out, to scream, to make him hurt the way he made her hurt.

She needed to get away, to be alone, to deal with the onslaught of resentment that surged through her. She turned away from the phone, the world around her tilting. "I hate him," she whispered, her voice barely audible.

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