The news felt like a physical weight, pressing down on him, making it hard to think. He felt a violent compulsion to destroy something, to lash out at the world. He slammed his fist against the wall, wincing at the sharp pain that shot up his arm. The pain was welcome, a distraction. How could his mother have kept this from him? He needed to get out, to walk, to move, to burn off this terrible energy. He needed to be alone.

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