furious - Story 53802 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always thought he knew his father. A solid, dependable presence. Now, Leo stared at the grainy photograph, his jaw clenched. The woman in the photo – the unknown sister’s mother – was smiling, her eyes bright. He wanted to rip the picture to shreds, destroy the evidence. His hands shook as he set the picture down on the table. The air in the room felt thick, suffocating. He paced back and forth, the hardwood floor creaking under his weight. How could his father… How could anyone do that? The thought burned.

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