“Engineering Support… after *all* this time?” Fiona's voice was low, barely audible above the pounding of her heart. The sheer audacity of the decision stole her breath. After all the projects, all the late nights, all the sacrifices in Research & Development, she felt betrayed.

Her face felt hot. She stood up abruptly, knocking her chair over. The noise startled her. She stared at the chair, then kicked it away.

She needed to get out of this office. The walls were closing in, the air was thick with the scent of defeat. She needed to take a walk, to breathe, to think.

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