The air crackled with a tension she couldn't name. He slammed the book, a biography of a famous musician, onto the table. The force of the impact shook the fragile lamp. He grabbed a chair and sat heavily.

He found the book at a garage sale, hoping to quiet the tempest within.

A piece of paper, folded neatly, fell out. He felt a tightening in his chest. His hands shook as he picked it up. The words blurred before his eyes. It was a lie. He had known, somehow, but seeing it confirmed...

He rose from the chair and hurled the book across the room.

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