"Unbelievable." John muttered, his voice a low growl. The text. To the prospective investor. "This project is a scam. Don't invest." He'd intended it for his business partner, David. Now, the dreams, the future, everything they'd built was about to be ruined. He slammed his fist on the mahogany desk, the impact reverberating through the antique wood.

He picked up the expensive pen and threw it across the room. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He grabbed his coat, pulled it on, and stormed out of the office, the door slamming shut with a resounding crack. He needed air, needed to get away, even if only for a short time.

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