The tiny apartment felt suddenly suffocating. Chloe's announcement, delivered with such cheerful optimism, now echoed in every corner of the small space. Sarah, the target of the news, struggled to breathe. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken resentment. Every object in the room seemed to mock her with its normalcy.

"So, you're really going?" Sarah asked, her voice tight. She traced the rim of her coffee cup with a trembling finger, the familiar ceramic suddenly feeling foreign. She felt a burning sensation in her chest.

Chloe, oblivious to the emotional storm, nodded, her eyes bright with excitement. Sarah abruptly stood, knocking over her chair, which clattered to the floor. "I need to go," she whispered, her voice barely audible. The suddenness of her departure, the unspoken words, hung in the air.

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