He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. It was like a physical blow, knocking the wind from him. His chest constricted, making it difficult to breathe. The apartment felt too small, the walls closing in. He shoved away from his desk and stood. He began to pace. The knowledge of her existence was like a poison. He needed to be alone, to process this. He walked to the window, looked out on the world. He felt betrayed.

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