David felt a prickling heat crawling up his neck. The lilies, again. He found them on his porch again, just like last week, and the week before that. No card, nothing. He kicked the vase, and the cheap plastic shattered. He could feel his hands trembling, his vision blurring. He swore, a string of curses that hung heavy in the humid air. He wanted to know who, to confront them, to make them understand the havoc they were wreaking on his carefully constructed life.

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