The vibrant colors of the art gallery blurred before his eyes. The book, innocently displayed on a pedestal, felt like a poisoned chalice. He felt a tightening in his chest, a sensation that made him want to rip off his collar.

He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing through the otherwise silent room. A gallery assistant jumped, startled. He glared at her, and she quickly averted her gaze.

He wanted to scream, to shatter the pristine silence. He wanted to find the author, to confront them. He needed to dismantle the narrative, to… to make sure they knew the truth.

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