It was the fifth time this month. Marcus felt his chest constrict. He slammed the car door with unnecessary force, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet evening. The fluffy white menace was at it again, digging beneath the fence, a small pile of dirt forming a testament to his repeated transgressions.

Marcus kicked at a loose stone, sending it skittering across the lawn. He couldn’t believe this was happening, every single time. He stalked towards the border, his fists balled. “Spot! Get out of my yard! Now!”

The dog, a Pomeranian, cocked its head, its tiny tail wagging uncertainly. Marcus felt a surge of heat in his cheeks. "I've had it!" He knew he would have to call the owner again. He hated it.

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