The stapler slammed against the desk, the sharp crack echoing in the otherwise quiet office. Sarah snatched the file, her jaw clenched so tight she could feel a headache blooming behind her eyes. He was *always* like this, casually strolling in late, leaving his messes, taking credit for her ideas. And now, this.

"Camp Whispering Pines?" Mark said, a casual grin spreading across his face. "No way! I was a camper there in '08. Remember the talent show? I did a killer magic act."

She almost choked. The air seemed thick, suffocating. He’d probably forgotten the whole thing. The way he’d stolen her place in the kayaking competition. The way he’d laughed when she'd lost her prized friendship bracelet in the lake.

"You wouldn't," she breathed, fighting to keep her voice level. "You wouldn't remember all that."

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