He hadn't been angry in decades. This time, the familiar sensation washed over him with unexpected force. The book, a glossy reflection of everything he’d carefully hidden, sat on his doorstep.

He kicked it across the porch, the flimsy cardboard skidding across the worn wood. The act did little to diminish the heat rising in his chest.

He went inside, slamming the door behind him. He needed to walk, to move, to burn off the energy churning inside him. The world was spinning. He had to do something.

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:
C0.461
0.376
🤬0.338
aggravated0.313
est0.304
Suppressed:
a-0.356
de-0.334
L-0.308
H-0.301
adventurous-0.256