The news felt like a physical blow. The world narrowed to a pinprick of rage. The betrayal, the utter disregard for everything he and his team had achieved, was staggering.

He sat rigidly in his chair, his jaw clenched so tightly he thought it would crack. His vision blurred, his eyes stinging. The click-clack of keyboards in the office seemed to amplify the churning turmoil in his gut.

He slowly rose, his movements deliberate, controlled. He wanted to shout, to tear down the walls, to unleash the fury that threatened to consume him.

He grabbed his keys, and stalked out, his shoulders hunched, his fists still clenched.

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