The room was too bright, the air conditioning too cold. It was all a calculated affront. The new guy, his replacement, was practically vibrating with enthusiasm. The sheer audacity of it! Susan’s jaw clenched.

“This is how you access the internal server,” she said, her voice flat, devoid of emotion. But inside, she felt a wild animal clawing at the walls of her chest, desperate to escape. She wanted to destroy everything.

She forced herself to demonstrate the process, each step meticulously explained. The new guy’s eyes were wide with what she was sure was malicious glee. She wanted to rip the computer from its moorings and hurl it across the room.

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