The realtor’s saccharine smile felt like a personal affront. She watched him, waiting for his signature. "It's a great opportunity, Mr. Peterson," she chirped, gesturing towards the glossy brochure. "Prime location, new construction." He could feel the pulse in his neck hammering against his collar.

He picked up the pen, then slammed it down. The sound echoed in the sterile office. "You think this is a game?" he growled, his voice a low, dangerous rumble. He felt his hands begin to shake.

She faltered, her smile wavering. "Sir, I just… I'm just doing my job." He laughed, a short, humorless bark. His gaze flicked to the photograph on the brochure: a generic, soulless house. That wasn't what he wanted. He wanted to scream.

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