The phone felt heavy in my hand. I stared at the CEO's office door, the polished wood reflecting my distorted image. The audacity of it all! Sarah, fresh out of business school, earning more than me, a veteran of the company?

I started pacing, my footsteps loud on the carpet. My carefully planned day, the carefully managed projects, all seemed to dissolve in a haze of disbelief. I needed to say something. The words, however, wouldn't come.

I ran my hand through my hair. The knots I was creating served as an outlet. I took a breath. I had to face him.

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