The postman, bless his heart, had just left the package. He just didn't get it. "Mr. Henderson," it read. Mr. Henderson was gone! He'd moved to Florida, owing him a sum of money he'd never see again. The nerve! He slammed the door, making the old frame rattle.

He ripped open the box with a speed that surprised even himself. Inside, a brand-new fishing rod. A fishing rod! He kicked the box across the living room, sending a cloud of dust into the air. He felt a sudden, intense heat in his face.

He picked up the phone, intending to call the post office, then slammed it back down. Useless. He needed to be anywhere but here. He grabbed his keys and stormed out the door.

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