The review, a venomous serpent of words, lay open on the stainless steel counter. Chef Antoine slammed his fist down, rattling the spice jars. "Amateur hour? Uninspired slop?" he spat the words, tasting the metallic tang of rage. His hand trembled as he reached for the paper, wanting to tear it to shreds, to obliterate the smug pronouncements of that… that critic. He pushed his fingers through his hair, a frantic gesture. He'd poured his heart, his life, into this restaurant.

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