furious - Story 53685 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t understand,” I muttered, kicking a stray chess piece across the checkered board. My son, Daniel, was staring at the board, lost in thought. A smug grin played on his lips. Chess had been my life. I'd spent countless hours studying openings, practicing tactics, and entering tournaments. Now, Daniel was a prodigy. He was going to the State Championships. I closed my eyes, the familiar burn rising in my throat. He'd surpassed me in a year. "Can you not just... lose one game?" I finally managed to blurt.

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