The air in the cubicle felt thick, stagnant, as if all the oxygen had been sucked away. He couldn't believe his ears. She was rambling on about Camp Serenity, a place he'd tried so hard to forget. The incessant bugs, the awful food, the endless marching.

"Camp Serenity was my first time away from home," she gushed. "It was just so fun! The lake, the songs, the activities. I was a counselor there for years, as a matter of fact."

He wanted to scream. He wanted to shatter something. He wanted to disappear. He stared at her, the words stuck in his throat, and the only thing he could manage was a tight, unnatural smile.

"That's… wonderful," he finally mumbled, trying to keep his voice steady.

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