She found the package at the foot of the stairs, wedged between the mailbox and the railing. It was a bulky, unwieldy box, addressed to someone who hadn't lived here in years. She felt a surge of heat rush through her.

She picked it up and dragged it inside. She dropped it on the floor with a thud. She kicked it. The thing was empty, but she kicked it again. She wanted to smash it.

She didn't know the prior resident, but the constant stream of packages was a constant irritant.

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