furious - Story 53308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was brutal. The traffic was worse than usual, each red light a fresh jolt of irritation. He gripped the steering wheel so hard, his knuckles ached. The radio blared some upbeat pop song. He reached over and killed the music.

He envisioned the smug look on the new hire’s face. He imagined him bragging.

The house seemed stuffy when he pulled up. He just wanted to be alone. He slammed the car door with an unnecessary force.

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