The air in the library felt thick, suffocating. He slammed the textbook shut, the sound echoing unnaturally loud in the hushed space. He’d been trying to study, desperately clinging to a semblance of normalcy. The news had been delivered during a Zoom meeting - a terse, impersonal announcement from the university president. He wanted to scream, to shatter something. He ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching on his clenched fist. He felt a desperate need to escape the silence, the weight of the library's heavy books.

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