The thought of the ordeal made him want to explode. Everything had been building up all week, the pressure at work, the constant noise from the neighbor's house, and now this. A whole tree on his roof. It was like the universe was against him.

He slammed the car door with a resounding thud that echoed in the quiet street. He'd never felt such a burning feeling.

His neighbor, bless his heart, was standing in his doorway with a nervous look on his face. He'd gotten out there to see the damage. "I am so sorry, John," he began. John just turned away and stared at the roof, his jaw set. "Get your insurance company to deal with it," John spat out.

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