The news ripped through Clara like a shock. “The Sweet Tooth Bakery” was closing. The aroma of freshly baked bread and the taste of the perfect éclair— erased. She felt a burning in her cheeks.

Her hands clenched into fists at her sides. She stomped her foot on the linoleum floor. She felt the urge to start throwing things.

She grabbed her coat and practically wrenched the front door open. She needed air, needed to get away from the awful reality that was crashing down on her.

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