The printer spat out the final page, a mocking echo of the hours Sarah had invested. Her hands trembled as she compared the two documents. The same research. The same data. The same conclusions. A cold, heavy weight settled in her gut. She felt as though the blood was draining from her head.

She crumpled the paper in her hands, her fingers squeezing until the corners of the page began to tear. The office felt suddenly too small, the fluorescent lights too bright.

She needed to get out. Now.

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