The digital display on the computer flickered, and the amount shone back at him, taunting him. The account was in his wife's name, but he'd never known about it. It was like a physical blow. He felt lightheaded, his vision swimming.

He went to the living room, where she was watching television. He felt a need for violence, but the words wouldn't form. He had to be calm, or he knew what he was capable of. He picked up a ceramic vase and threw it. The vase exploded and the sound seemed to echo through the house.

She didn't move. She just watched him.

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