The attic felt like a pressure cooker. The heat, the stuffiness, the sheer weight of unwanted objects. His hands were damp with sweat. He was unable to stop the internal seething.

He moved slowly through the clutter, a whirlwind of the previous owners' refuse. An old photo album. A rusty toy. A bag filled with what looked like dirty clothes.

He felt the tension build in his shoulders, a knot that seemed to grow tighter with each new discovery. He wanted to scream.

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