He gripped the package so tightly that his knuckles were white. The delivery person, a young woman with a bored expression, had simply shrugged when he'd pointed out the wrong name. "Happens all the time," she’d said, and driven off.

He felt his stomach clench. It was a large, heavy box. A new television, he guessed, judging by the shape and the weight. It must have been expensive. He'd just gotten settled in, unpacked his life.

He stomped inside, the package dragging along behind him. He didn’t want the thing in his home. He kicked it across the room.

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