furious - Story 53478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright yellow post-it note stuck to the package was the final straw. "To Mr. Henderson – hope you enjoy!" It was almost too much.

He ripped the note off the box, the paper tearing raggedly. He crumpled it in his fist. He wanted to scream, but he forced himself to take a deep breath.

He kicked the box. He didn't care what it was. He was at his limit. He tore into the box and chucked the contents into the fireplace.

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