"It’s not safe!" Clara bellowed, her voice echoing in the cramped apartment. She watched, her stomach churning, as Maya, her daughter, precariously balanced on a stack of books, attempting to reach the highest shelf. Climbing was Clara's thing. Rock climbing was her outlet. Now, Maya was treating the family bookcase like a damn mountain. Clara crossed the room, her palms sweating. Her own climbing gear hung abandoned in the closet. The fear was a cold knot in her gut as she watched her daughter teeter. That gear wasn't going anywhere again, just like she wasn't.

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