He slammed his fist against the brick wall in the lobby. The sound echoed in the cavernous space, a loud, frustrated punctuation mark to the quiet announcements plastered everywhere. He felt his knuckles throb, a physical echo of the internal pressure building inside him.

"This is outrageous," he growled under his breath, his voice rough with resentment. He ripped the conversion notice from the wall, tearing it into jagged pieces.

His chest constricted. He stalked outside, the city's noise, usually a comfort, now grated on him. He needed air, desperately. The familiar scent of exhaust and hot dogs offered no solace.

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