He picked up the phone, his fingers slick with sweat. He stared at the screen, at the lies, at the betrayal. His chest felt constricted, as if an invisible hand was squeezing the life out of him. He flung the phone across the room, the device skittering across the polished floor, landing in a heap near the wall. "Lily!" he shouted, his voice a raw rasp. "Get down here now!" He could feel the pulse in his temple, a relentless drumbeat against the silence.

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