“No,” she whispered, her voice barely audible. Her friend, Chloe, winced. This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. This whole thing was Chloe’s fault, her idea. She just wanted to have a good time. Now the idea was that this was all a mess, something that has to be fixed. She felt a heat rising in her chest. She pushed past Chloe, ignoring her pleas, and slammed the front door behind her. The cold air offered no relief.

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