He tore down the poster from his wall, the one with the team picture. The image of his smiling face, the shared triumph, now felt like a sick joke. He ripped it into shreds, the paper tearing easily in his grip. He wanted to destroy everything connected to this now.

He crumpled the pieces into a ball and threw it against the wall, the impact a weak explosion of frustration. He paced the small space, his heart hammering against his ribs.

He wanted to take the coach down with him. The world was now a place of spite.

He was the best.

He wasn’t supposed to be cut.

He was betrayed.

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