furious - Story 53955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The excavation site was a mess, and so was he. John surveyed the hole in the ground, the exposed time capsule a testament to some act of whimsy he couldn't recall. He kicked at a loose clod of dirt. It went flying. His entire life felt like a carefully constructed facade, and this capsule was the first crack in the foundation.

He ripped open the rusty metal box, scattering its contents with a violent flick of his wrist. A cheap toy soldier, a half-eaten lollipop, a drawing of a smiling sun. The sun. He felt like he wanted to scream, scream until his voice was raw.

He started to pace, his fists clenched, his breath coming in short, sharp gasps. The details of his life were supposed to be tidy, ordered. The existence of this time capsule was a blatant act of chaos.

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