The vibrant colors of the playground, usually a source of joy for him, were now a grotesque spectacle. He watched Lily as she swung, her face placid and unconcerned. "I know what I saw," he said, each word a painful effort. "I know *you* remember, too."

Lily stopped swinging, her expression unchanging. "It’s been so long, Tom. Really, I've got no memory of the situation."

Tom felt a surge of pure, unadulterated frustration, a feeling that coiled in his chest and threatened to explode. He clenched his fists, knuckles white. The image, stark and ugly, was still etched in his mind, and she was acting as if it was merely a dream.

"You're lying!" he yelled, the sound echoing through the playground. His own voice shocked him.

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