It was a blatant power grab. That’s what it was. Sarah stared at the woman in the floral dress and her little, smug smile, asking for permission to plant herbs.

Sarah’s fingers twitched. Her stomach churned. The very idea of anyone touching *her* space sent a wave of nausea through her.

She folded her arms tightly across her chest. "No," she stated flatly, the word a hard, cold pebble in the otherwise silent air. She could feel the blood rushing in her ears, and the urge to stomp on the ground.

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