The feeling surged through him, a white-hot wave of something akin to fury. His hands clenched into fists; he could taste the metallic tang of frustration in his mouth. The photos, the bright and cheerful descriptions, felt like a deliberate act of cruelty.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to rip the computer screen from the desk. He stood up abruptly, pulling at his collar as if he was suffocating. He needed air, needed to get away from the hateful images. He had to do something, anything, to release the pressure that built inside him.

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