The coffee cup shattered against the kitchen counter, the ceramic shards scattering across the tiles like a scattered jigsaw puzzle. It was an accident, of course, a consequence of the tremor that had started in her hands and was now running through every part of her.

She had found it, tucked away in a locked drawer – the Instagram account. Maya, her perfect, sweet Maya, posing for pictures she’d never seen, with people she’d never met.

A wave of heat crashed over her. She paced the kitchen, her breath coming in ragged gasps. The walls seemed to close in, the air thick and heavy.

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