He imagined the laughter, the gossip, the jokes that would be made at his expense. He could feel the flush rising up his neck, a telltale sign. He felt a deep, profound anger coursing through his veins.

Across from him, the receptionist, Amy, was humming, oblivious. He wanted to shout, to scream, to lash out. He took a deep breath, fighting for control.

"How are you so calm?" he asked through gritted teeth. Amy looked up, surprised. "I just don't see the point in getting upset," she replied, her voice gentle. He turned away, unable to bear her serene composure.

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