The news landed on Daniel like a physical blow. "Transfer to Facilities Management." His throat tightened, making it hard to swallow. His career in Finance, years of hard work, all dismissed.

He rose from his chair, a sudden, involuntary movement. His hands trembled as he pushed it back into place, the effort oddly difficult. He wanted to scream.

He walked over to the window, staring out at the parking lot, but seeing nothing. The blood roared in his ears. This was a deliberate act of malice. He would not let them win.

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