The meticulously folded origami crane on the desk was suddenly a symbol of everything that was wrong. He had found it next to a textbook. Japanese. His grandmother had taught him the language. His partner, Chloe, knew how much he revered his grandmother and her memory.

He located Chloe in the kitchen, casually stirring a pot on the stove.

He walked over to her, his jaw set. "You were lying." The words were clipped, sharp.

She turned, her face devoid of any emotion. He wanted to smash something. He felt a profound sense of violation.

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