The scent of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, but the aroma failed to soothe Emily. She peered out the window. The small, yappy terrier was digging under her rose bushes, kicking dirt everywhere.

She slammed the oven door shut, the force shaking the whole counter. The aroma of baking bread was now tainted. She felt a knot forming in her stomach.

She marched outside, her face flushed, and stood over the dog, her hands on her hips. "You get out of here, you little…!" she started, stopping herself before she could finish the sentence.

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