The air in the art room felt thick, oppressive. Sarah, her hands clenched into fists, stared at the wall. Her five-year-old niece, Grace, had plastered the wall with drawings. All of them featuring the creature that had once offered Sarah an escape from her parents' neglect. She wanted to rip them down, tear them into shreds. Instead, she stood frozen, the muscles in her back seizing up. Grace’s innocent voice, asking if she liked the pictures, sliced through the air.

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