He hadn't been this agitated in years. Mr. Davis, with his gentle smile and innocent eyes, requesting space for his petunias. The man had no idea what he had walked into.

His vision blurred slightly. His jaw locked. He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead.

"No," he rasped, the word barely a whisper, a sound quickly swallowed by the air. It was a threat, a promise, and a warning, all wrapped into one.

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