furious - Story 53609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was making. The images swam before his eyes. His great-grandmother, the woman who’d always been portrayed as a victim of circumstance. Yet here she was, in a photograph – smiling, holding the hand of a man who was not her husband. He felt a strange combination of disbelief and intense frustration. He grabbed the desk and slammed his fist on it. He wanted to shout, but the words were caught in his throat.

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