furious - Story 53612 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the podium, the smooth surface a constant reminder of the forced pleasantries he was expected to deliver. His father, a man whose life choices consistently exasperated him, was enjoying the attention. The man was practically glowing.

The room was stuffy, the air thick with perfume and the cloying smell of roses. He felt his pulse hammering in his temples, each beat a tiny explosion of resentment. He couldn't understand how everyone was so easily charmed.

"Well," he began, his voice surprisingly steady, considering the tempest brewing inside. He clenched and unclenched his fists. “I guess I should say something about Dad's… accomplishments.” A bitter taste coated his tongue.

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