The news felt like a blow. James sat at his desk, the patent rejection letter staring up at him. His self-watering plant pot! He'd spent his life savings on the prototype. His hands began to shake. He felt a flush creep up his neck. They were already manufacturing it!

He threw his chair back from the desk with a vicious shove, the wood screeching against the floor. He paced back and forth, muttering under his breath. He had to be calm. He took a deep breath, fighting the urge to shatter the monitor with his fist. He would fight this.

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