"Unacceptable!" Marcus spat the word out like a venomous seed. He had a major presentation that was now completely jeopardized. He needed to be in Berlin, readying his pitch for the biggest deal of his career. The delay meant a missed opportunity, a potential career killer.

He ran a hand through his already dishevelled hair, leaving it even more tangled. His jaw was locked tight. He slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent waiting area.

He considered the possible outcomes, each one more bleak than the last, and felt a surge of pure, raw exasperation consume him. He wanted to shatter something. He wanted to *do* something.

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