It felt like a physical blow. The betrayal. The invasion. Emma’s hands shook as she held her journal. The pages were open to a particularly vulnerable entry. Her roommate, Jessica, was lounging on her bed, scrolling through her phone, seemingly unconcerned. Emma felt a wild impulse to throw something, to break something.

She walked towards Jessica, her legs feeling unsteady. "Did you?" she managed to say, her voice cracking.

Jessica looked up, her expression changing instantly. "What are you talking about?"

Emma held up the journal, the evidence undeniable. “Don’t pretend. I know you did.”

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