The plate of lasagna sat untouched, congealing in front of Maria. Her cousin, Isabella, had just declared her intention to embrace Wicca. Maria felt a cold wave wash over her, numbing her fingertips and toes. Her jaw ached with the effort to keep her mouth shut.

"So, you're just going to throw everything away?" she finally asked, her voice dangerously calm. She picked at the tablecloth, her knuckles white.

Isabella shrugged, her eyes sparkling with an excitement Maria couldn't comprehend. The candles on the table seemed to flicker with an unnatural intensity, casting long, dancing shadows. Maria’s breath hitched. She pushed the plate away, the gesture abrupt.

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