"Is this some kind of joke?" Martha growled, her voice tight, the edges of her smile pinched and thin. The oversized, sequined pencil holder, emblazoned with the words 'World's Best Teacher' – ironic, considering she'd nearly failed Kevin in seventh grade – sat like a taunt on her desk. She kicked at the leg of her desk, nearly upsetting a stack of student essays. The letters danced before her eyes, blurring as a wave of heat washed over her face. She would give him a piece of her mind, if she ever saw him again.

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