The weight of the deed felt heavy in her hand. She stared at it, the black ink blurring through her tears. Across the kitchen table, her brother, Peter, was already planning renovations, his voice bubbling with enthusiasm.

"We could…" he began, his hand gesturing expansively. She couldn't listen. She didn't want to hear about his plans, his ideas, his vision for her grandmother's house.

She stood up abruptly, knocking the chair over with a loud bang. She couldn't. It just wasn't fair. The unfairness clawed at her, and she ran upstairs. She slammed the door to the master bedroom and then sunk to the floor, where she began to sob.

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