He slammed the phone down, the plastic receiver rattling against the cheap kitchen counter. A wave of heat washed over him, making his skin prickle. He’d driven an hour to get here, to surprise her with the flowers he’d painstakingly picked. Only to find another man’s coat hanging by the door. That arrogant smirk on the guy’s face… It was infuriating. He paced the small apartment, his fists clenching and unclenching. He needed to leave, to get away from this suffocating feeling, but first he would have answers. He ripped open the door, and took a deep breath. "Who the hell are you?"

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