The musician ripped the concert poster from the wall, tearing it into jagged pieces. The band, his band, was advertising a performance of his original compositions, only… the band wasn't his. And he wasn't going to get paid.

His knuckles were white as he squeezed the torn paper. His art, his music, now being used to line someone else's pockets. The audacity! He felt a burning in his chest.

He stormed back into his apartment, slamming the door behind him. He started pacing, back and forth, muttering under his breath. He had to stop them. He had to. Now.

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