"So, the yacht and the island are all hers?" Leo barked, his voice tight. The lawyer nodded, avoiding his gaze. Leo couldn't meet his brother's eyes. He felt a throbbing ache in his head, a relentless pulse of frustration.

He leaned back in the uncomfortable office chair, his knuckles white as he gripped the armrests. He had always dreamt of sailing, of owning a boat. His sister, Isabella, who barely knew the difference between a jib and a main sail, had inherited their father's beloved yacht and the private island. He was awarded some worthless bonds.

He took a sharp, shallow breath, the air thick with tension. He was close to snapping. He wanted to break something, to scream, to lash out.

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