The critic’s words echoed in his skull. Chef Ricardo, normally unflappable, ripped off his apron with a savage movement. The fine linen crumpled in his grasp. He stalked out of the kitchen, ignoring the startled glances of his staff, and out into the cool evening air. He needed air, needed to get away from the accusing smells, the clatter of pans that now mocked him. He kicked a discarded crate, the wood splintering under his boot.

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