“Just a few sunflowers,” the woman cooed, her voice sickeningly sweet. She was dressed like a fairy, a complete insult. He imagined what it would look like, the chaos of plants bursting forth.

His hands shook as he reached for the watering can. He wanted to hurl it, smash it against the shed.

"Get off my land," he growled. His voice was gravel, raw with the anger that threatened to erupt. He wanted her gone.

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