The coffee shop buzzed, but the sound was distant, muffled. He sat, staring at the swirling patterns in his lukewarm latte, completely detached. He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his neck bunching. It was a physical ache, a tight knot in his chest. His friend, Sarah, had always been more polished, more charming. But this? This was a betrayal. He felt his hands begin to sweat, palms slick against the cool ceramic of the mug. He wanted to shout. He wanted to scream.

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