He’d always felt like an outsider, a misplaced piece in a perfect puzzle. Now, the DNA test confirmed it: he was. Liam’s apartment, once a sanctuary, now felt like a cage. He slammed his fist against the wall, the plaster cracking under the impact.

He wanted to tear everything apart. The carefully curated photos on the wall, the framed diplomas, the memories. Every single one of them felt fraudulent now. He thought of his adoptive parents, their faces etched with the love and affection he'd come to believe. Now, that love felt stained, tainted.

He needed to destroy something, to obliterate the past and any connection he had. He grabbed his guitar and hurled it against the wall.

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