The email read, "Ryan Taylor wants to be your friend on Facebook." Sarah felt a tremor run through her. Every muscle in her body seemed to tense. She reread the name, her breathing becoming shallow and rapid. She could feel the familiar knot forming in her stomach, the one that always came back when she remembered those taunts on the playground. She slammed the desk and abruptly stood up, walking to her window, staring out at the parking lot, as if she could will the cars to disappear.

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