furious - Story 53696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, David!” The words, offered with forced cheerfulness, tasted like ashes in her mouth. She forced a smile and shook his hand, the contact burning like acid. She could feel her cheeks flush with a heat that wasn’t entirely from embarrassment.

Later, she found herself slamming doors. The house echoed with the sound of her frustration. She needed to channel this feeling, this building pressure.

She grabbed her boxing gloves. The punching bag, a silent, inanimate object, offered the only solace she could find.

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