The news arrived as a text message, the concise message burning a hole in Kai's chest. He tossed his phone onto the couch, the action clumsy and uncontrolled. He felt a sudden, intense heat radiating from his core, making him feel feverish. He stood up, walking back and forth, trying to burn off the tension.

He went to the fridge and yanked the door open, staring at the meager contents. Nothing looked appealing. Nothing was going to make this better. He slammed the door closed. He wanted to break something, anything.

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