A coldness spread through Ben's body as he recognized his "Gothic Revival" on the back of the woman ordering a coffee. The way the light caught the lines, the way the shadows fell, it was *his*.

His fingers tightened around the handle of his bag. He wanted to scream at her. He wanted to demand to know who had done this. He found himself unable to breathe.

He paid for his coffee, then turned and walked away. The image of the tattoo burned in his mind. He tasted ash in his mouth.

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