He re-read the email, the words blurring on the screen. “Change is inevitable,” it said. Inevitable? This felt… personal. He felt a throbbing ache in his temples, a pressure that was almost unbearable. His hands were shaking.

He pushed his chair back and stood up, his gaze sweeping across his office. He saw all the small details, the pictures, the mementos. Each one represented a memory, a connection, a piece of his life. All of it was suddenly meaningless.

He needed to get away, to leave this behind. He grabbed his coat, his movements jerky and hurried. He stormed out of his office, slamming the door behind him with a resounding crash.

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