He had seen the email notification, and he had read the article. He read the article again. And again. The audacity of it! He was shaking. His carefully constructed plans for the future evaporated. He felt a powerful, almost primal surge of anger. He found himself picking up things and putting them down, unable to focus on anything else.

He needed to do something. He pulled out a piece of paper and began writing a letter. The words flowed out of him. He crumpled the paper. Then started again. He needed to be strong. He needed to be smart. He would not allow this to be the end of his career.

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