The fluorescent lights of the pawn shop hummed, a dissonant soundtrack to her misery. Jessica’s hands shook as she pointed. She was completely unable to swallow. The ring. Her grandmother's ring. Sitting right there in the window.

She had been searching for any sign of it, hoping against hope that it would turn up. Her hope was now replaced by disbelief. This was a violation. Someone had stolen something precious, something that held the essence of her family.

“I… I need that ring,” she stammered, her voice thick with emotion, her throat closed. It felt as if she was underwater.

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