The air crackled with a tension that threatened to set the room ablaze. Michael, his face flushed, slammed his fist onto the table. Across from him sat “CyberGhost,” the anonymous online nemesis who had tormented him for months. Now, the mask was off. Revealed to be a coworker.

His hands shook. He felt a surge of heat rush through his veins. He'd poured his heart out to this person, shared his vulnerabilities. Now he felt as if his skin were crawling, as though he couldn't stand the sight of the person across from him. He couldn’t process the situation. He gripped the edge of the table.

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