He ripped open another cardboard box, splinters of the cardboard scratching his hands. "Unbelievable," he growled under his breath. Inside, a collection of chipped teacups stared back at him. What was he supposed to do with these? He jammed his hands in his pockets, pacing the cramped attic. This whole situation was infuriating.

His heart hammered against his ribs. He’d signed the paperwork, paid the deposit, and now found himself cleaning up after these people. They'd left behind everything. Old clothes, broken furniture, and now, these… *things*. He let out a frustrated grunt. He’d envisioned a peaceful evening after work, and this was how his day was ending.

He slammed his fist against a dusty trunk, the wood vibrating beneath the impact. Dust billowed out, coating his face. He rubbed his eyes, the sting of the dust adding to his aggravation. He felt a surge of pure, unadulterated frustration.

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