He felt his teeth grinding. The news report blared from the television in the background, detailing the plagiarism charges against esteemed author, Jasper Bellweather. He switched off the sound, unable to bear the saccharine tones of the newsreader. David, who had always aspired to be a writer, now felt the very air in the room thicken with a strange, suffocating heat. He grabbed his worn leather jacket, needing to get out, needing to *move*. He slammed the door behind him with such force the pictures on the wall rattled.

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