He watched as his sister, beaming, showed the jeweler the locket. His grandmother's locket. He felt a sharp, sudden heat spread through his body.

His throat constricted. He couldn't speak. He wanted to scream, to grab the locket and run, to somehow save what he still could of his past.

The jeweler, oblivious, was already examining it, the sunlight glinting off its surface. The world narrowed to that locket, the betrayal it represented.

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