"You've *got* to be kidding me," Alex spat, the words laced with acid. His eyes scanned the document, the words "Customer Service" leaping out like taunts. Years of dedicated work in Research, all reduced to this.

He ripped the paper from the printer, crumpling it in his fist. A headache hammered behind his eyes, a relentless, throbbing pulse. The chair creaked loudly as he leaned back, his chest rising and falling rapidly.

He needed to get out, to *move*. He couldn’t stay there, suffocating in the stagnant air of his office. He had to do something, anything, to release the pressure building inside him.

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