The news detonated in Marco’s mind. Dr. Lee, his advisor, was abandoning ship. He felt a pressure building in his head, a relentless throb that matched the pounding of his heart. He kicked at a stray piece of paper on the floor, sending it skittering across the lab. His knuckles whitened as he gripped the edge of the workbench. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further. He felt a dangerous urge to shatter the glassware, to dismantle everything around him. He needed to get out, to escape the confines of the lab and the weight of this infuriating development.

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