The coffee cup nearly shattered against the counter. A tremor ran through her, a wave of cold fury that settled deep in her bones. This was unbelievable. This new project lead, Mr. Henderson, was reminiscing about Camp Wildwood.

"Ah, Wildwood," he chuckled. "Best summers of my life! Remember the ropes course? That was a nail-biter."

She remembered. The ropes course. The way he’d laughed when she’d failed to complete it, the way he’d spread rumors about her afterwards. The injustice of it all, that feeling of being perpetually outmatched.

"Yes," she said, her voice tight, "I remember." The air in the room felt suddenly thin, as if she could barely breathe.

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