A wave of icy dread washed over Emily. She picked up the drawing, a crayon depiction of the creature that had haunted her as a child. It was her niece, Olivia’s, work. A bitter taste coated her tongue. The same terrifying figure. The same unsettling smile. She wanted to shatter something, to destroy the evidence. How could this be happening? The questions churned inside her, twisting her gut. She struggled to keep her voice even as she turned to Olivia, forcing a smile.

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