The cramped attic space was stifling. Sweat beaded on Mark's forehead as he rummaged through the dusty boxes, searching for something, anything, of value. His sister, Sarah, was downstairs, probably already planning on renovating the entire house.

He hurled a mildewed photo album across the room. The flimsy cardboard ripped, scattering sepia-toned images across the floor. He kicked a stack of old books, sending them tumbling. He just wanted to find something to help him.

"This is not fair." He murmured to himself as he angrily kicked over a box.

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