Her teeth ached. Emily recognized that grim physical sensation, that familiar pressure that always accompanied her when confronted with this particular… situation. There he was, in a suit. Mark, looking very handsome, even.

Her stomach churned. She clutched her clutch so hard her knuckles turned white. She wanted to march up to him and, she didn't know what. Scream? Argue? Accuse?

She made her way towards the restrooms. The mirrored reflection of her face was a stranger. She splashed cold water on her face, but it didn't help. The heat was still there. She felt like someone had just lit a fire inside her.

She had to get out of there.

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