The shop owner's gaze was unsettlingly blank, the man’s face a mask. A bead of sweat trickled down David's temple. He felt his pulse quicken, his heart hammering against his ribs. He wanted to smash something, to scream, to…

The ring. The same one. He hadn’t forgotten the details of it. Seeing it here made his stomach churn.

He stepped forward, his body rigid. “How much?” he asked, his voice strained and thin. His hands were shaking. He could barely stand.

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