The air crackled with a silent tension. Charles stared at the empty space where his vintage Mustang had been parked. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. His throat felt constricted.

He considered calling his lawyer, or calling the police. Instead, he walked back inside, the slam of the door echoing through the house. He needed to *do* something. He needed to *fix* this.

He went to the cupboard and pulled down his toolbox. He would find out who did this. He would make them regret it. Every fiber of his being was geared towards one thing: redress.

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