The tow truck driver, a mountain of a man with a bored expression, was already halfway through attaching the chains. Sarah stormed out of her house, her face a thundercloud. "Hey! What in the world do you think you're doing?" The words exploded from her. He barely glanced up, a grunt the only response. Each link of the chain seemed to tighten the pressure in her chest. She clenched her fists until her knuckles whitened, the nails digging into her palms.

The driver finished his task with a final clank. Sarah stalked towards him, her voice a low growl. "That's my car. In my driveway! You have the wrong address." He simply pointed to a poorly-placed sign; HOA parking violations. The nerve of it.

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