furious - Story 53656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That's it," Sarah muttered, grabbing the small, ceramic teapot and hurling it at the kitchen wall. It exploded into a million pieces. The text. To her grandmother, accidentally, instead of to her gossiping sister. "I hate this family."

Her face was flushed, her breath coming in ragged gasps. She paced the room, running her hands through her hair. She felt a need to punish something, anyone. She wanted to smash something, break something. She felt a wave of nausea rolling over her.

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