furious - Story 53304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. Each floor felt heavier than the last, and the air got thicker with the silence of my own thoughts. The company was supposed to have my back. I spent years climbing the ladder. Now, I felt as if the rungs had been greased.

I needed to clear my head. The moment I got home, I’d take a long run. Then, I would decide.

The moment the doors opened, I rushed out to the parking garage. The car seemed very far away. My keys felt heavy in my hand.

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