It was a beautiful room, filled with well-dressed people, a stark contrast to the turmoil within her. The polite chatter, the clinking of champagne glasses, all grated on her nerves. She felt a knot forming in her stomach.

She watched her father, a man who consistently disappointed her, receive the outpouring of affection with a gracious smile. She felt a wave of icy rage course through her.

She took a deep breath, trying to regain control. As she walked to the podium she made a fist. "I… I'm glad," she began, the words sounding hollow even to her own ears.

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