The sunlight seemed to mock Elena as she stood, hands on her hips, staring at the excavated time capsule. The whole situation felt like a deliberate act of sabotage. She didn't plant this. Why would she? She didn't even *like* her old self, the one who apparently believed in this sort of sentimental nonsense.

She grabbed a nearby rock and hurled it with all her might. It sailed over the fence, disappearing into the neighbor's yard. She felt nothing. Emptiness. Then, the familiar, stinging heat in her eyes.

Inside the capsule were a few knick-knacks and a diary. The handwriting was hers, undeniably. The words, however, were an utter enigma. She flipped through the pages, her fingers tightening around the brittle paper, the words dissolving into a blur of meaningless ink.

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