The news articles were everywhere. "The Amazing Aunt Clara's Apple Pie!" It made him want to smash something. His Aunt Clara, who could barely boil water, was taking the credit for the apple pie that had taken him years to perfect.

He felt a tightness in his throat, and his hands clenched into fists. He wanted to shout, but he knew it would be useless. He walked to the oven and slammed it shut, the sound echoing through the empty kitchen.

His jaw set, he grabbed his keys. He had an idea. He would show them, he would show everyone, exactly what he could do.

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