furious - Story 53426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the invitation in the mail and felt the temperature in the room spike. A wave of heat washed over him, a burning sensation behind his eyes. He crumpled the paper, his hands trembling as he did.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to break something. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture rough and agitated. He pictured the sneering faces, the backhanded compliments, the reliving of every embarrassing moment.

He threw the invitation against the wall, where it fluttered to the floor like a wounded bird.

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