The small, stale space was slowly closing in. Linda felt her breath quicken. She was a woman of routine, and this… this was not in the plan. Not even close. She turned and glared at Kevin, who was whistling, completely oblivious.

She wanted to shake him. She wanted to yell. She clenched her fists so hard her nails bit into her palms.

"Could you, for once, just be quiet?" she hissed, the words raw and sharp. Kevin stopped whistling, but the damage was done. She knew she'd be stuck with him.

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