He stared at the photograph on the desk, a picture of his father, smiling at him. His father had always said he would receive the family's antique car collection. He wanted that. It was everything. Now, everything had changed. The will stated differently. His sister, Eleanor, the spoiled one, had received the cars.

He picked up the photograph and threw it across the room. It shattered against the wall. He wanted to destroy everything. He felt a hollowness in his chest, a consuming emptiness.

He sank into a chair, his head in his hands.

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