He stared at the lilies, their sickly sweet scent already making his stomach churn. Mark clenched his fists, knuckles white. The damn things were sitting on his desk, right in the middle of his carefully organized, sterile office. No note. No signature. He spun his chair around, the plastic scraping against the floor, and glared at the closed door. A cold sweat prickled across his skin. He imagined the smug face of whoever had done this, the silent laughter echoing in the empty space. “I’ll find out,” he snarled under his breath, the words tight and strangled.

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