I slammed the book, *The Picture of Dorian Gray*, onto the table, the cover flapping open. My hands were trembling as I stared at the letter. I wanted to scream, but the words were trapped in my throat. My face felt hot, my vision blurred. I, a librarian, had found a damning confession about the head librarian. I felt like I was going to explode. The library card catalog loomed over me, looking enormous. I took a few labored breaths and then picked up a heavy tome.

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