A tremor of pure, unadulterated *something* ran through John. He couldn't quite name it, but it was potent. He snatched the phone from the coffee table and hurled it at the wall. It shattered, the glass and plastic exploding into a thousand pieces.

He spun around, his face flushed, and glared at Mark. "You think you can just *decide* these things?" His voice was barely a whisper, thick with unreleased emotion. His hands shook as he balled them into fists.

The silence that followed was broken only by the ragged sound of his own breathing. He felt the impulse to destroy everything, to obliterate the source of this… this… *thing* inside him. He wanted to scream.

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