furious - Story 53940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The carnations – cheap, common carnations – were a calculated insult. Brian’s face was flushed, his jaw tight. He picked up the vase, the glass cold against his burning skin, and slammed it onto the floor. The scent of the flowers, sickly sweet, filled the air, mingling with the metallic tang of his rising anger. The shattering sound echoed through the empty apartment. He wanted to lash out, to break something, anything. The lack of explanation was a torment. He felt trapped.

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