The cold, hard facts were laid out before him, a stark indictment. He felt like he had been punched, repeatedly, in the gut. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t breathe.

He found her in the garden, watering the plants. He looked at her and noticed that her smile had been a façade. Everything was a lie. He walked over. He felt his hands begin to tremble.

“When were you going to tell me?” he asked, his voice barely a whisper. She looked at him, her eyes wide, and her lips parted.

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