"What the...?" Maya exclaimed, her voice barely a whisper. The grade on her history essay stared back at her: a 'C-'. A 'C-'? She had meticulously researched, cited sources, and crafted what she thought was a masterpiece. The sheer audacity of it all.

She felt a tremor run through her body. Her throat tightened, and she found herself unable to swallow. She sat, still motionless, staring at the paper. The world seemed to shrink, focusing on that single, damning letter. This was a direct attack on her intelligence, a blatant dismissal of all the effort she'd put in.

She felt like she was trapped in a cage of her own frustration. She pushed the desk away from her and got up and started pacing her room.

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