He felt a pressure building in his chest. Each second that ticked by increased the tension. He needed to be at the client meeting. He needed to close the deal. He needed to salvage his reputation.

He closed his eyes, visualizing the presentation, the faces of the board members. He imagined them smiling with him. Instead, he would be stuck here. He could see his dreams drifting away.

He finally snapped his eyes open. He was stuck here. He looked at the emergency phone, then kicked the wall in a frenzy. He felt a desire to destroy the whole damned world.

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