The news, delivered with a casual, almost dismissive tone, felt like a slap. Robert's ears were ringing. He couldn't quite process it. He wanted to shout, to argue, to demand an explanation. But all he could manage was a strained, "That's…great."

He abruptly stood up, his chair scraping loudly against the floor. He needed to leave, to get away from the saccharine congratulations and the triumphant smirk on his competitor's face.

He left the office without a word, the elevator doors closing behind him like a final, definitive judgment.

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