The message scrolled across the screen, the words a personal affront. “Effective immediately: Integration into the Data Entry Team.” Liam's hands curled into fists, his nails digging into his palms. After his consistent successes in Creative Design, this felt like an insult.

He could feel his face flush, a heat spreading from his core. He took a deep breath, trying to regain some semblance of composure. But the anger was a tangible thing, a weight pressing down on him.

He slammed his fist on the desk. The sound was sharp, explosive. He looked up, his jaw clenched, and his eyes darted around, searching for an outlet. He wanted to break something.

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