She surveyed the scene: her mother, radiant; her father, beaming. The perfect facade. It made her stomach clench with the familiar discomfort. Everything felt wrong, as if she were in a play she never auditioned for.

She felt a tremor in her hands as she approached the stage. The crowd of well-wishers and sycophants began to applaud, and it felt like a mocking. She couldn't breathe.

“Mom,” she started, her voice barely a whisper, “Dad… I…” The words seemed to lodge in her throat, refusing to come out. She wanted to scream.

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