furious - Story 53816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. Dr. Carter. First session: 3 PM. His jaw went rigid as he recognized the name. Liam Carter. The bully who'd made a mockery of his awkward teenage years. A therapist? The world had gone mad.

He hurled his phone across the room, the device slamming against the wall. He needed to be calm. He’d asked for help. This was a coincidence, nothing more.

He paced his apartment, muttering curses under his breath. He envisioned Liam, sitting there, nodding sympathetically, and offering him platitudes. He felt the bile rise in his throat. He would not give him the satisfaction of seeing him broken.

The appointment was at 3. He would go. He would grit his teeth and survive this.

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