He stared at the screen, the comparison documents mocking him with their brazen similarity. The author, renowned for his originality, had, in fact, ripped off parts of his unpublished work. His breath hitched in his throat. The heat surged through him, making him feel like he was burning.

He threw his chair across the room, watching it slam against the wall. The sound did little to soothe the anger swirling inside of him. Every word, every sentence he had crafted, every emotion he poured onto the page—stolen.

He paced the room, unable to contain his energy. He started tearing through his own notebooks, the pages flying everywhere.

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