He kicked the water cooler with a force that sent it skidding across the locker room floor. The metallic clang was the only sound for a moment. Mark paced back and forth, fists clenched so tight his knuckles were white. The air felt thick, heavy, as though the very walls were closing in on him. *Unbelievable.* He’d been the top scorer, the team captain last year. He ripped his jersey from the hook, the fabric tearing slightly at the seams. He wanted to rip something else.

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