The rusty gate squealed as Clara wrenched it open, her jaw tight. That mutt, Buster, was at it again, happily trotting across her freshly mown lawn, leaving muddy paw prints on the pristine green. She marched towards it, arms crossed, the veins on her temples throbbing with each step. "Buster!" she barked, her voice sharp enough to slice through the humid afternoon air. The dog, oblivious, just wagged its tail and looked at her with vacant eyes.

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