Rain lashed against the car windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside her. Amy gripped the steering wheel, her knuckles white. Mr. Callahan? Her daughter, Lily, was under *that* teacher's care? The man who'd made her life a misery in high school, constantly belittling her artistic aspirations? She wanted to drive the car into a ditch. She imagined the smug look on Mr. Callahan's face. She pounded on the steering wheel, a sharp, repetitive rhythm. "I can't believe this," she muttered to the empty car.

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