"Well, this is just peachy," she muttered under her breath, her voice raspy. The opulent leather of the wallet practically gleamed in the dim light of the antique shop. It was nestled amongst a display of tarnished silver. She’d been offered a pitiful sum for her own family heirlooms. And now, this, a windfall just waiting to be claimed.

Her head throbbed, a pulsing rhythm that matched the fury building inside her. The injustice of it – her ancestral possessions undervalued, while this stranger’s fortune lay ripe for the taking – was almost unbearable. Her eyes narrowed.

She imagined the shop owner’s smug face, the way he’d tried to lowball her. The thought ignited a fresh wave of resentment. She felt a cold, hard knot form in her stomach. Everything screamed at her; to take, to leave, to punish.

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