The realtor’s saccharine smile grated on Ethan’s nerves. He gritted his teeth, forcing himself to maintain a semblance of politeness. His sister, Maya, was by his side, nodding along, her eyes shining with something that looked suspiciously like glee.

He'd waited his entire life for this house to be his. He'd grown up in it. He remembered everything. Now, he had to share it.

The realtor droned on about “potential” and “investment opportunities.” He tuned her out, his gaze fixed on the meticulously kept garden. He balled his fists, the nails digging into his palms. This was supposed to be his. Now, he would be forced to deal with his sister's presence.

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