The news had spread through the online art community like wildfire. Sofia’s "Starry Night Lake" now adorned the forearm of some influencer, her life's work reduced to clickbait. She sat, stiff and motionless, in front of her computer, the screen reflecting her pale face.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach. A churning sense of displacement. She felt utterly violated. She wanted to disappear.

She wanted to take the world to task. She opened a new document, ready to type something, anything, but the cursor just blinked back at her.

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