furious - Story 53466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email on his phone. His sister. "The painting is going," it read. The painting, his mother's, the one she’d lovingly painted of their childhood home.

His vision swam. He gripped the phone so tightly his knuckles ached. His breath came in shallow, ragged gasps.

He could practically feel the warmth of the sun in the painting, the laughter, the love. Now, all he felt was an icy, crushing emptiness.

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