He slammed his fist on the kitchen table, making the glasses on the counter jump. His mother flinched, but he didn't care. He was practically vibrating with something unpleasant. It rose up in him.

He pointed at the boxes stacked in the corner. "Why?" His voice was tight, barely a whisper. He felt like he wanted to break things, to destroy the evidence of his youth.

He turned away, unable to meet her gaze. He had to leave. This was too much.

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