The card felt cold in her hand, a cheap, mass-produced mockery of a birthday greeting. No name. Just a generic message. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the backdrop of the quiet morning.

She threw the card across the room, the trajectory haphazard. It landed with a soft thud against the wall. She paced, her steps quick and agitated, like a caged animal.

She ran a hand through her hair, tugging at the strands, wishing, hoping that the feeling would go away. She wanted to yell, she wanted to cry. She didn't want to feel this.

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