furious - Story 53852 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah ripped the list from the lawyer’s hands. The paper trembled. The woman offered a sympathetic look, but Sarah ignored it. *Go skydiving*, the first entry shrieked at her. Her mother, who had been terrified of heights? It was all so…wrong.

She found herself pacing the length of her tiny apartment. The air felt thick, suffocating. She threw the list onto the coffee table, watching the way the paper fluttered to a stop.

*Travel the world.* *Learn to play the guitar.* *Tell the truth.* The last one hit her hardest, like a punch to the gut. The truth about what? About who she *really* was? She stomped on it, crushing the list under the heel of her boot.

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