The anticipation had been there for a while, building up slowly. Seeing the invitation sealed the deal. The rage consumed him, a bonfire in his chest. His hands began to shake as he read the details, his eyes darting from word to word.

He slammed the invitation against the table. The sound echoed in the silent room. He imagined every conversation he would have, every smug comment he would have to endure. He felt the familiar weight of dread, and the sharp sting of resentment.

He kicked the chair across the room, the wood scraping loudly against the floor.

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