He slammed the door, the sound echoing through the empty house. His grandfather's pocket watch, its delicate hands frozen at 2:17, was gone. Sold.

The scent of stale pipe tobacco, usually a comfort, now choked him. He ripped the newspaper off the coffee table, scattering the photos of his late grandfather across the floor.

He paced, unable to sit, unable to think straight. The injustice of it was a physical weight on his chest, pressing him down, suffocating him. He would get it back.

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