He stared at the screen, at the subtitles accompanying the old Bollywood movie. Across the room, Priya was laughing, her Hindi fluent and expressive. His fists balled, nails digging into his palms. The silence in the room was a deceptive calm. He felt an intense pressure, a pressure that was about to find its release. He wanted to shout. He wanted to break something. He wanted to run. He just stood there, rooted to the floor.

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