He let out a strangled cry as he dropped his phone. The screen cracked, a spiderweb of fractures spreading across its surface. The message, meant for his therapist, now read: "I'm a failure." It was now sent to his mother. He stood paralyzed.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His hands clenched and unclenched. He wanted to disappear. He felt a dizzying emptiness in his chest, a vacuum sucking the air from his lungs. He wanted to break something.

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