The air in the attic was stale and thick, the silence broken only by the frantic beat of her own heart. She felt as though something in her was about to burst. This was not how things were supposed to be. They had left behind a mess. A total disregard for her time and effort. A mess!

She grabbed a rusted shovel and began to haphazardly scoop up the debris. With each load of debris she removed she slammed it into a nearby bin. Her face was flushed, her cheeks burning. A wave of heat washed over her, making her skin prickle. "Who do they think they are?" she murmured, her voice laced with venom.

Her movements became increasingly frantic, fueled by a simmering discontent. The very idea of the previous inhabitants caused her to grind her teeth. Every discarded object felt like a personal affront. She just wanted it *gone*.

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