furious - Story 53857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house was stifling, the dust motes dancing in the shafts of light that pierced through the drawn curtains. Emily felt like she was trapped in a cage. *Learn to paint.* *Dance in the rain.* *Be free.* The words seemed to taunt her.

She flung the list across the room, it hitting the wall and falling to the ground. Her breath was coming in short, ragged gasps.

She began to pace, her hands clenched at her sides. Her mother had lived a life of quiet resignation, never daring to reach for anything outside of her comfort zone. It was a life Emily knew she could never live.

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