The air in the office crackled with unspoken tension. Michael slammed the file onto the doctor’s desk, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent room. His face was flushed, his eyes blazing. “Explain this,” he demanded, his voice a low growl. The doctor flinched. Michael felt a surge of exhilaration at the man's discomfort. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture rough and agitated. He wanted to inflict the same kind of discomfort on someone, anyone. The injustice of the situation made his skin crawl.

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