He sat in the park, the green space a cruel irony. The sky was the same blue as his chart. The birds chirped, oblivious to the turmoil inside him. He balled his fists, feeling the nails digging into his palms. He felt the need to shout, to express the rage that threatened to burst out of him. He envisioned all the people responsible for the error, the careless doctors, the indifferent administrators. He wanted to confront them, to force them to understand the enormity of their mistake.

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