The gallery owner broke the news. "He's… out," she said. The artist, known as "The Professor," had simply vanished. No farewell show, no explanation. Just silence. Michael's hands clenched. He hadn't spoken to the Professor in years, but the man's influence was still everywhere. He had built his whole career on the Professor's foundation. He left the gallery, striding down the street, feeling a bitter taste in his mouth. He wanted to scream. He wanted to destroy something. He wanted, more than anything, to confront the man who had abandoned him.

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