"Mom, can we go to the park?" Maya's innocent voice cut through the tension in the kitchen. Her mother, Jessica, whirled around, nearly knocking over a vase of lilies. Mr. Davies? He was now teaching her daughter? The sheer injustice of it made her stomach churn. Mr. Davies, the man who had the audacity to fail her on her art project in sixth grade, was now in charge of her precious Maya? She felt a sudden urge to clean, to scrub something until it sparkled and was perfect. "Not tonight, sweetie," she managed to say, her voice strained. "Mommy has something to do."

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