furious - Story 53338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Impossible,” growled Ben, his voice a low growl. “Tony’s Pizza?” He read the sign, then read it again. It still said the same thing. “Closed, Thank You.”

His brow furrowed. He felt the blood pounding in his ears. Every muscle in his body felt tense, ready to spring into action.

He spun on his heel and kicked the trash can across the sidewalk. It clattered to the ground, scattering garbage. He didn't care.

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