He stared at the list: “Learn to fly a plane,” scrawled in a familiar, loopy hand. Thomas's cheeks flushed, a prickling sensation spreading across his skin. His wife, Emily, had never mentioned this. Not even once.

The audacity of it. The secretiveness. It was all so… calculated. He imagined her, up in the air, without him, pursuing her dreams while he… what? Watched the news?

He strode to the window, unable to contain the surge of energy coursing through him. He ripped open the window, breathing in the cold air, feeling the familiar city sounds, the chaos, a welcome distraction.

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