She stormed out of the coach's office, the door slamming shut behind her with a resounding *THWACK*. Sarah marched down the hallway, her jaw set, her eyes blazing. The faces of her teammates blurred into a meaningless parade. She couldn’t stand to see them, to hear their excited chatter about practice, about the upcoming season. She wanted to disappear, to vanish into thin air. Her throat felt tight. The urge to lash out felt like a physical need.

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