The world seemed to shrink around her. Emily felt a suffocating pressure in her chest. Mr. Collins, her English teacher, had liked her latest post – a picture of her at a concert, a carefree smile plastered across her face. Suddenly, that smile felt forced, fake. She wanted to claw her skin. The thought of him, with his gentle, knowing gaze, seeing her in such a context... it was unsettling. She grabbed her phone and flung it across the room.

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