“This is a joke,” she muttered, her voice tight, choked. She was alone in her dorm room, the laptop screen displaying the official announcement. A wave of heat washed over her, making her skin prickle. She wanted to throw something, to obliterate the source of this betrayal. She kicked the wastebasket across the room, the plastic container skidding across the wooden floor. She slumped onto her bed, burying her face in her hands, her breath coming in ragged gasps.

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