The room was damp, dark, and utterly useless. A hidden space behind the master bathroom, accessed by a secret panel. This revelation was the last straw. A wave of frustration washed over him, leaving him feeling cold and empty.

He'd been promised a peaceful existence, a sanctuary from the world's harsh realities. Instead, he had a crumbling house, a mountain of debt, and a constant feeling of being cheated.

He found an old hammer in the corner and began to swing, smashing at anything within reach, venting the fury that had been building inside him. The sound of the blows filled the silence, and he felt some small measure of 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