He read the words, and a cold dread washed over him. "Restructuring: Reassignment to the Janitorial Staff." Michael's world tilted on its axis. He had dedicated his career to Management, and now this.

He felt as though someone had punched him in the gut. The air seemed to have been sucked from the room. He struggled to breathe, his chest heavy and constricted.

He slammed his fist against the desk, a sound that echoed unnaturally loud in the empty office. He felt a need to break something, to destroy 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