The phone felt impossibly heavy in Liam's hand. He stared at the screen, the blinking cursor mocking him. He’d practiced the congratulatory speech a hundred times, and now… silence. He crumpled the acceptance letter in his fist, the paper crinkling like a dying leaf. His breath hitched in his chest. A knot formed in his stomach, twisting tighter with each passing second. He threw the crumpled paper at the wall, a desperate gesture. He hated this feeling.

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