"Unacceptable," thought Michael, his voice a low growl. He tossed the offending document onto the antique desk, the paper landing with a thud. The polished mahogany surface seemed to reflect his own internal storm.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture abrupt and agitated. He wanted to shatter the tranquility of the room, tear down the carefully constructed façade of order he’d built.

He strode to the window, staring out at the meticulously manicured lawn of the apartment complex. The perfection of it seemed to mock him, a symbol of the injustice he now faced. The world around him seemed to twist and warp.

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