He grabbed the magazine, the cover image instantly causing his stomach to churn. His photographs, published without his knowledge or consent, were staring back at him. They were accompanied by a glossy interview with a celebrity, a person he’d never even met.

His jaw tightened. The celebrity's words, the fluff and the lies, were a betrayal of his art. A bitter taste filled his mouth. He felt the familiar heat rising in his neck. He wanted to go to the editor, to the publisher, and…

He closed his eyes. Then he started dialing.

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