He threw the phone across the room, the device bouncing off the wall and landing with a dull thud. The digital evidence, the carefully cultivated image, mocked him from where it lay. His son, Michael, was more than just a typical teenager – he was a deceiver.

A wave of nausea washed over him. He felt as though he had been punched. The air in the room seemed to vibrate with a suppressed fury. He stood there, frozen, his chest heaving, his gaze fixed on the fallen phone.

"Michael!" he barked, his voice raw.

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