The room seemed to spin. The accusations. The evidence. He'd never felt anything like this before. A fire began to rage in his chest. His vision blurred, and a ringing began in his ears, masking all other sounds. He didn't want to hear anyone or anything. He simply wanted it all to go away.

He slammed his fist against his desk. The impact sent a shockwave through his arm. He clenched his jaw, willing the surge of rage to subside. It didn't. He picked up the desk lamp and threw it to the ground, shattering glass all over the floor.

He paced the room, kicking at things, and then he stopped. He stood in the middle of the room, panting. He had never lost control like this before.

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