He gripped the steering wheel so hard his hands ached. Each blink of his eyes felt like a small explosion of frustration. He had to pull over. He was getting too close to the house. He turned the key and the car sputtered to a stop. He took a few, deep breaths, but they felt shallow, ineffective. The note, clutched in his hand, detailed the existence of a half-brother. A brother his father had kept secret. He threw the note onto the passenger seat, then slammed his fist against the dashboard. The plastic cracked. He was going to find his father.

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