He stared at the paperwork, the carefully worded clauses and fine print. His stomach churned. It felt like an elaborate deception, a meticulously crafted plan to push him out. They had been slowly eroding everything he loved about the place.

He crumpled the notice, his hands shaking. He looked out the window at the familiar brick facade, usually a comforting sight. Now, it just felt like another obstacle. He felt a sudden, urgent need to escape, to run.

He grabbed his jacket, the fabric rough against his skin. This wasn't happening to him. It *couldn't* be.

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