The old house felt oppressive, the air heavy with the weight of unspoken truths. He found the photos tucked away in a trunk in the basement. His grandfather, the man of rigid morals, posing with a woman who was not his wife. He felt a coldness creep into his bones, a chilling awareness of the deception that had shaped his family's history. He clenched his fists, knuckles white, and squeezed his eyes shut. His grandfather's voice, always so condemning, echoed in his mind. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to rend the fabric of their meticulously crafted reality. He kicked a chair, and it splintered.

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