The band’s music seemed to distort, becoming a garbled symphony of noise. The moment he saw her, Daniel felt as if the world tilted on its axis. The entire room started to spin. Her, with him. She looked radiant.

He stood frozen, unable to move, unable to speak. Every cell in his body screamed. He needed to put as much distance between them as possible.

He spun around and headed towards the bar. He ordered a double scotch and downed it in one gulp, then another, the burning sensation doing little to numb the ache. He felt like he was burning.

The situation was intolerable. He had to leave.

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