furious - Story 53617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses. The forced laughter. Everything about the retirement party felt nauseating. He watched his mother, her face a mask of false sentimentality, and a wave of nausea rolled over him. He hated this charade.

He clenched his jaw, his muscles tight. He wanted to shout, to tear the room apart. Instead, he forced a smile, a fake, brittle imitation of joy.

He walked toward the podium with slow, deliberate steps. He could feel his heart pounding. "Well," he began, his voice sharp, "I guess I'm supposed to say something nice." The statement was laced with acid.

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