furious - Story 53650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read the email, the words mocking him. Sold. The announcement felt like a personal insult, a deliberate slap in the face. The carefully cultivated image of the company, that of family, dissolved in a moment.

His face flushed, the skin prickling with heat. He felt the urge to scream, to shatter the quiet. He took a shaky breath, forcing himself to remain seated.

His hands shook as he reached for his phone, and wanted to call someone, anyone, to share the bitterness. The thought of the looming changes, the uncertainty of his future, was a torment.

He threw the phone across the room.

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