The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt muted, the paintings blurred. He’d meticulously crafted this evening, a grand gesture. Then he’d seen her, *his* partner, laughing with another man, her hand resting on his arm. A cold wave swept over him, leaving him trembling. He wanted to shout, to confront them both, but he couldn't. He couldn't move. He stood, paralyzed, watching as they walked away, the sounds of conversation fading into a dull roar in his ears. He was unable to stop the feeling of utter devastation. He felt his face crumple.

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