The coffee table bore the brunt of his frustration, the books and magazines sliding precariously as he jerked it forward with a violent shove. His knuckles ached, throbbing from the impact of the table. He felt like an idiot, a fool. How could he have missed this? The hidden profile, the coded language, the subtle clues he'd dismissed as typical teenage angst. He slammed his fist down on the table, the sharp crack a stark counterpoint to the hollow ache in his gut. "David!" he barked, his voice rough.

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