furious - Story 53334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, handwritten note pinned to the door of “Mama Rosa’s” was the final straw. Inside, it said: “Closed. Thank you for the memories.” Sarah stared at it, her face a mask of disbelief.

Her hands shook as she reached for the door handle, then retracted them. The handle seemed to scorch her skin. The entire building seemed to be mocking her. The place where her grandma used to take her. Gone.

She spun on her heel and started walking, shoulders hunched, back rigid. She felt a need to break something, to scream, to lash out. The world itself was a target.

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