"Denied." The single word glared back at Emily from the computer screen. She felt a sharp, stabbing pain in her chest, as if someone had just punched her. She sucked in a quick breath, her vision starting to blur. She couldn't breathe.

She gripped the edge of the desk, her knuckles bone-white. The world started to spin. She tried to swallow, but her throat felt constricted. She felt a sob bubbling up inside her, but she forced it down. She had to stay strong. She had to.

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