The familiar scent of mothballs and old fabric hit her as she approached the table. There, amongst a collection of chipped mugs and broken picture frames, sat Mr. Snuggles. Her throat constricted. The owner, a young man fiddling with his phone, barely glanced up. “Five dollars,” he said, his voice flat. The audacity of it, the careless disregard for the memories attached to the bear, was almost unbearable. Her hands began to tremble.

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