He stared at the menu. The steak sounded delicious. Then he thought of the numbers. He was paying for drinks. He had to. He wanted to scream.

He picked at his food. He looked around the fancy restaurant, at the other happy customers. He imagined his junior colleague, probably eating the same meal, without a second thought.

"Everything alright, Dad?" his daughter asked, her voice concerned.

"Fine," he muttered, forcing a smile. The steak tasted like ashes.

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