furious - Story 53706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet, the numbers blurring before his eyes. It was a disaster, a cascading series of errors that were, he felt certain, deliberate. And now, this. This cheerful pronouncement from the woman across the room.

"Camp Sunshine? Really? That's amazing! I spent all my summers there. Did you know the lake used to be a little less polluted back then?"

He slammed his fist on the desk. The sound made her flinch. The lake. The endless, freezing lake. He hadn’t been on a lake since then, not even one in a postcard. He felt his head heat up, his vision narrowing.

“Let’s just get this work done, shall we?” he bit out.

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