furious - Story 53914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man’s polite request hung in the air, a polite noose tightening around David’s neck. The redwood, a majestic giant, stood on the property line. Now, Mr. Peterson wanted to fell it. For a new deck.

David felt a sudden surge of heat, a burning sensation that spread from his gut to his face. He felt like he wanted to punch something. His fingers twitched, itching for a fight.

“I… I can’t make a decision right now,” he choked out, his voice raspy. He needed air. He needed to get away. He pivoted and walked into the house, not even bothering to close the door.

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