He kicked the trash can across the alley, the metal clanging against the brick wall. The job application, the interview, the hopes – all were a cruel joke. He had invested time, effort, and optimism, only to be tossed aside. The thought sparked a volatile sensation in his chest.

This wasn’t just about the job; it was about years of feeling overlooked, of watching others effortlessly achieve what he worked relentlessly for. It was about the sting of comparison, of always being on the periphery.

He wiped a hand across his face, scrubbing away the frustration. He needed to be alone. He needed to find a place to unleash this coiled energy.

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