The small, cramped apartment felt even smaller now. He felt a tremor run through his hands as he dropped the legal document onto the worn kitchen table. He was supposed to get the family's art studio, a place where he always felt at peace and where he'd spent years honing his skills. Instead, his sister, Eloise, who had no interest in art, had received the property.

He picked up a chipped mug and hurled it against the wall, the ceramic shattering into a million pieces. The sound barely registered. His vision was blurring. A wave of bitter resentment crashed over him.

He wished he could rewind time. He wished he could go back and change everything. But there was no going back, only the bitter taste of betrayal.

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