He stared at the package, a slow burn starting in his chest. It was a small, flimsy thing, tucked discreetly behind a potted plant on his stoop. He knelt down to get a better look, the morning sun glinting off the plastic tape. He was just getting started.

He reached down and snatched up the package. It had the same, familiar, infuriating name scribbled on it. *They* never stopped. He stalked back inside, the package clutched in his hand.

He ripped the box apart and threw the contents into the trash with an irritated sigh. He wanted to go out and throw the trash at the next person that walked by.

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