He stared at the blueprints, his face a mask of disbelief. The identical structural design. The matching materials. The same innovative approach he’d spent months perfecting. His competitor, the smug bastard, had stolen it. He felt a surge of heat rush through his veins, making his skin prickle.

He crumpled the plans in his hand, the paper twisting and tearing beneath his grip. He felt the urge to throw them across the room, to destroy everything. Instead, he forced himself to breathe, to think. He knew what he had to do, even though the thought of it made him want to rip his own hair out. He had to fight.

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