The email notification chimed, a small, irritating ping that shattered the already fragile peace. He jabbed at the screen, heart drumming in his chest like a trapped bird. Another shared document, another collaboration request from *her*. It felt like a personal affront.

“Oh my God, Emily!” David exclaimed, eyes wide as he looked over. "You went to Camp Green Lake? No way! I had the best time there.”

He spun around, the blood draining from his face. Camp Green Lake. He’d tried to bury that place, to erase it from memory. The relentless heat, the endless chores, the bullying that had made him feel so small.

“That’s… interesting,” he said, his voice clipped. He could feel his hands clenching, itching for something to break.

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