He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. David watched Mr. Evans pull out of his driveway in a cherry-red convertible. The same Mr. Evans who'd feigned concern about David's job loss just last week.

He couldn't fathom it. David had been meticulously budgeting, worried about putting food on the table, while Mr. Evans cruised around town in a car that probably cost more than his entire house.

David pounded on the dashboard. He had to resist the urge to follow the car, to confront him. He took a deep breath, trying to calm his racing pulse.

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