"Well, this is just great," Maya seethed under her breath. The music seemed to grow louder, the lights brighter, mocking her. There, across the dance floor, was Liam, looking as charming as ever. The traitor.

Her mouth twisted into a grimace. She reached for another canapé, popping it into her mouth and chewing with a ferocity she didn't realize she possessed. Each crunch was a small act of defiance, a small catharsis.

She felt a tremor run through her. Every beat of the drum sounded like the pounding in her chest. She watched him twirl the bride around the dance floor, and a sharp, unfamiliar pain stabbed through her.

He glanced in her direction and smiled, as though nothing had happened.

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