The estate agent's casual admission felt like a punch to the gut. "Oh, the old owners? Yes, there was a… unfortunate accident. Suicide, really. Sad, but… life goes on!" The life of the old owner ended in the master bedroom, which was now her master bedroom.

She felt a wave of nausea. The air in the house seemed thick, suffocating. She rushed to the window, throwing it open, desperate for clean air. The thought of sleeping in that room, of breathing the same air, made her skin crawl.

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