The receptionist smiled, a saccharine expression that grated on Leo’s nerves. He sat there, legs bouncing, a constant jittering motion. He could not look away from the framed degrees on the wall. Dr. Ethan Blake, PhD. The boy who had ruined his childhood.

He gripped the arms of the chair so tightly his knuckles were white. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken resentment. Ethan Blake was supposed to help him? He wanted to laugh.

He saw the door open and Ethan Blake's face appeared. A friendly smile. The smile he used to use to taunt him. Leo rose, his entire body poised for combat, and prepared to enter the office.

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