The fluorescent lights of the office seemed to buzz with a new, irritating intensity. My desk felt like a cage. The numbers, the numbers, the numbers. They danced in front of my eyes.

I picked up the stapler and slammed it down on the desk, startling myself. I hadn’t meant to do that. I felt sweat forming on my brow.

"Problems, Carol?" David, the office manager, peered over the partition.

"No," I replied, my voice raspy. "Everything's fine." I slumped back in my chair, suddenly exhausted.

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