The tow truck’s tire marks were etched deep in the gravel. A searing heat surged through Maria’s veins. She could feel the blood rushing in her ears. How could this have happened?

She pictured the tow truck driver, probably laughing, sneering at her. Her hands trembled as she reached for her phone. The dial tone seemed to mock her.

She slumped against the front porch column. Her legs felt weak, and her chest ached. She took a deep breath and stood back up. She'd get her car back. She'd find out who had done this.

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