The air seemed to thicken around her as she recognized the familiar stitching, the faded patch on his paw. It was Horatio, her dearest friend, sitting amid a collection of broken radios and rusty tools. The man running the yard sale, a man with a bored expression, gestured vaguely towards the bear. "Make me an offer," he mumbled. Sarah felt her jaw tighten. The insouciance of the man, the complete lack of understanding of the bear's significance, filled her with a potent, unwelcome energy.

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