The scent of her mother's perfume, a cloying floral mix, lingered in the air, a constant reminder of her presence. Amelia was trying to read, but the words blurred before her eyes, an indicator of her current state. She slammed the book closed.

Her mother's attempts at bonding, the overcooked meals, the unsolicited advice, were a relentless assault on her carefully constructed defenses. Each platitude, a fresh wave of irritation.

She walked downstairs, finding her mother, happily humming, in the kitchen. Amelia glared at the countertop, feeling a familiar tightness in her chest. She had to leave, she just didn't know where to go.

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