The glow of the computer screen reflected in Michael’s wide, shocked eyes. He leaned back in the chair, the cheap plastic creaking under his weight. He’d stumbled upon the account while trying to pay the bills online. It was a secret, hidden, a monument to a life apart. His hands trembled as he closed the laptop.

He found her in the bedroom, folding laundry. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. But instead, he asked, his voice low and dangerous, “Where did all this come from, Mary?”

She continued to fold, her movements precise and deliberate. “What are you talking about, Michael?” she replied, her voice eerily calm.

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