“You knew!” Amelia accused, her voice tight and strained. Her husband, David, flinched back from her, but she advanced, her chest heaving. The realtor had called, a smug little weasel, revealing the secret. The house, their dream home, had been the site of a meth lab explosion, a catastrophic event that had left a family shattered and the house structurally unsound.

Amelia’s hand shot out, knocking a framed photo of their engagement off the mantelpiece. The glass shattered, mirroring the way she felt, utterly broken. Her eyes burned, her chest felt like it was encased in iron. She had poured her heart, her savings, into this place. Now, it was a poisoned chalice.

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