furious - Story 53288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message was brief, but its impact was anything but. "Add Greg Harrison?" His mouth twisted into a grimace. He felt a bitter taste on his tongue. He wanted to rip the computer apart with his bare hands.

He sat there, unmoving, feeling the heat rise inside him. He remembered the constant put-downs, the way Greg had always belittled his aspirations. His fingers trembled as he hovered over the "reject" button.

He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to control the surge of conflicting emotions. He wanted to ignore it all, to pretend it hadn't happened, but the memories, vivid and cutting, would not let him. He could feel the pulse in his neck.

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