He tore the notice from the door, ripping it into shreds. The small pieces scattered across the floor, as useless as his arguments would be. He felt a raw, visceral anger, a knot tightening in his chest.

He needed to break something. He grabbed a heavy book from the shelf, considering. The object felt heavy, solid. But the release wouldn't solve anything.

He slumped onto the couch, defeated. The air seemed to weigh him down, the silence echoing the hollowness of his situation.

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