He let out a strangled laugh, the sound grating against the silence of the attic. The previous owners, a family who’d seemed so friendly at the closing, had left behind a trove of cast-offs.

A broken radio, a cracked vase, a pile of old magazines— it was a veritable museum of uselessness. He felt the muscles in his face tighten.

He kicked a dusty suitcase across the floor, the metallic clang of the lock echoing in the confined space. His breath hitched in his throat.

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