He ripped the flyer off the student union bulletin board, crumpling it into a tight ball. His jaw clenched, muscles bunching in his neck. He could feel his pulse hammering against his temples. Someone bumped into him, apologized, but the words were lost in the roaring in his ears. He shoved past them, ignoring their bewildered expression, and strode towards the campus quad, intending to rip down every single poster announcing the impending doom of his institution.

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