The attic air tasted like regret. John wanted to scream. He'd envisioned a clean slate, a fresh start. Instead, he was staring at a chaotic mess.

He felt his jaw muscles clench, and his fists ball up. He scanned the room, each object a symbol of the previous residents' carelessness. A chipped mirror reflected his own furious gaze.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm the racing thrum in his chest. This was beyond inconvenient. It was a blatant disregard for him and his time.

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