The writer ripped the flyer in half. Again. And again. Her story, her voice, now reduced to a cheap pamphlet promoting some new luxury perfume. The text was butchered, her carefully crafted prose warped into vapid marketing copy.

“They didn’t even bother to change the names,” she hissed, tossing the shredded paper into the overflowing trash can. Her hands were trembling; she balled them into fists.

Her pulse hammered against her wrists. She considered calling her lawyer, then thought of a more direct approach. Her eyes narrowed. She imagined the smug faces of the advertising executives, the ones who thought her words were up for grabs. “I’ll show them," she whispered, a steely glint in her eyes.

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