Sweat beaded on Marcus’s forehead. The sun beat down, just like the pounding in his temples. This was ridiculous. Mrs. Gable, with her ridiculously cheerful demeanor, wanted to plant a rose garden. *His* yard.

He took a deep breath, trying to control the tremor in his hands. He wanted to scream. He wanted to tell her to get off his property.

“I’m afraid that won’t be possible,” he managed, his voice strained. He shifted his weight, his feet feeling rooted to the spot. He almost wished that they *were* rooted so that they could break out and stomp the entire garden to bits.

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