A vein throbbed in Mr. Henderson's temple as he stared at the package. A painting. A ridiculously large, garish painting depicting a clown juggling flaming bowling pins. From *Chad*. The one who’d nearly burned down the chemistry lab. He crumpled the delivery slip, tossing it onto the growing pile of ungraded papers. His jaw clenched. He ripped at his tie, feeling the suffocating pressure in his chest. He needed air, needed to be away from this reminder of ineptitude and chaos.

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