The email notification popped up on his screen. "An update from the chefs at 'Spice Route'." He clicked it, and his blood turned cold. The words "closing its doors" jumped out at him, and all other words blurred together. He leaned back in his chair, his chair nearly tumbling over with the force of his movement.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable heat in his face. He’d spent countless evenings there, enjoying exotic dishes and fiery conversations. It was the only place that could make the perfect vindaloo.

He stood up so quickly that his chair fell over, clattering on the hardwood floor. He ignored it and left his office. He had to go there. He had to see it. He had to feel… something.

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