James felt his face flush as he walked away from the interview. He'd been looking for a job as a mechanic, the very thing he'd been mocked for by Liam, who apparently was a “software engineer”. He'd sat there, watching Liam try to act interested, knowing the truth. Liam who actually worked for a phone company's customer service. He felt a rage in his stomach.

James walked out of the building. The sun was blinding. It made his eyes water. He wanted to scream. He imagined the meeting he was going to have. And then he remembered the state of his toolshed. He took a deep breath. He would focus on something. He’d start building a workbench. That would be enough for now.

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