The news story on her computer screen was still open. The irony was exquisite. He’d lectured her on fiscal responsibility, yet he had hidden this entire fortune away from her. She felt a cold wave of something wash over her. It had to be the end. She was finished.

She clicked the send button on the email she had drafted. It had only taken her a few minutes to write the short note.

The front door opened. He looked up. She felt nothing.

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