The elevator ascended agonizingly slowly. Every floor felt like a personal affront. Michael kept his gaze fixed on the numbers ticking upwards, a grim calculation of his time wasted. He wanted to rip the doors open, scream at the injustice of it all.

His muscles were tight, aching. His jaw was clenched, and his teeth ground against each other. The tension was a physical presence, a knot in his stomach. He felt a desperate urge to run, to escape the suffocating confines of the building.

Finally, the doors opened. He strode out, his face a mask of controlled fury, heading straight for the parking garage.

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