He walked into the convention center, the air thick with anticipation. He spotted the culprit across the room. She was showing off his signature artwork tattooed across her back.

He felt his vision narrow. He started walking towards her. He pushed through the crowd, his heart drumming against his ribs. Each step was deliberate, purposeful.

He stopped in front of her. He felt a cold, unwavering fury. He focused on the tattoo, his jaws clenched. He took a deep breath. His voice, when he spoke, was icy.

Emotion: mad

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -1.94 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.26

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion mad. 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 mad stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the mad emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the mad vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.448
0.344
est0.340
🤬0.336
aggravated0.332
Suppressed:
a-0.495
de-0.485
la-0.387
H-0.344
latter-0.290