He ripped off his gloves, throwing them down with such force they bounced back off the attic stairs. “Seriously?” his voice was a low growl, barely audible above the drumming of his heart.

He’d spent the whole morning cleaning, meticulously scrubbing, and now this. A collection of stained, yellowed newspapers, tucked away like some kind of time capsule from a family of slobs. He stalked towards the pile, each step a testament to his mounting frustration.

His gaze locked on a particularly offensive headline: "Local Man Wins Pie-Eating Contest." He crumpled the paper in his hands, crushing it with a grunt. He could practically feel the veins throbbing in his temples.

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