He grabbed his keys, flinging open the front door. He couldn't stay inside a moment longer. The very air inside had become tainted with the relentless pounding of the renovation.

He walked past the house, his gaze fixed on the construction site. His face was a mask of controlled fury. He watched as the workers hammered, sawed, and ripped away, their actions a calculated assault.

He clenched his jaw, turned, and strode away. He needed to distance himself from it all, to get away from the physical and mental assault. The neighborhood wasn't the same anymore.

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