He arrived home late, his face flushed, his clothes rumpled. The look in his eyes was something she didn't recognize, but it filled her with rage. She stared at him, unable to speak, her chest tight. The house lights glared.

She walked away, and into the kitchen. She began to clean, scrubbing the countertops with such force that her knuckles turned white. When he approached, she kept her back to him.

“What’s wrong?” he asked, his voice hesitant. She didn't respond, she just kept scrubbing.

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