"We need you to play forward, Chloe." The soccer coach's announcement was a match to dry tinder. Chloe, a defensive midfielder, felt a surge of pure, raw irritation. She'd dedicated herself to protecting the goal, to reading the game. Now, this.

Her face flushed hot. She could feel the pulse in her throat, a frantic, hammering rhythm. She felt a sudden urge to kick something, anything. The change felt personal, as if the coach was taking away the one thing she was good at.

She swallowed hard, trying to keep her voice even. "But…I'm a midfielder." Her voice came out flat and strained. Ignoring the others, she turned and started walking away, her pace quickening with each step, intent on putting distance between herself and the coach’s baffling request.

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