The stapler hit the desk with a resounding *thwack*. Sarah slammed her fist down right after, the papers she was supposed to be filing scattering across the already cluttered surface. "Seriously, Mark?" she spat, her voice tight. "You’re late again, and now the Jones account is probably going to suffer because you can't be on time."

He just shrugged, that infuriating nonchalance. Then, he had the gall to grin. "Hey, you looked like you were about to spontaneously combust over there."

Suddenly, the camp's name, "Camp Clearwater," popped into her head. “You were there, too?” she asked, a flicker of something she couldn't quite name passing through her.

His smile widened. "Yeah! Remember the archery range? And Mrs. Gable's cooking?" A wave of pure, unfiltered annoyance washed over her. He was absolutely the most irritating person she’d ever met.

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