The email notification was a shock. It was from Kyle Davis. He could feel his blood pressure surge. Kyle. The one who’d orchestrated so many cruel pranks. A wave of bitterness washed over him. He felt his hands begin to shake.

He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten. He wanted to smash something. He got up from his chair and started pacing, feeling the heat rising in his body. His heart was hammering. He could barely breathe.

He grabbed a pen and furiously began scribbling on a piece of paper, the ink flowing unevenly. He wrote down all the things he wanted to say, all the things he’d never said. He crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it against the wall.

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