"Again?" she yelled, the word barely audible above the din. The music pulsed through her apartment, vibrating in her very bones. She felt a burning in her cheeks, a searing sensation.

She slammed her fist on the wall, the impact sending a jarring shock up her arm. She paced the room, her thoughts racing, a whirlwind of furious energy. How dare they?

She knew that she would say something.

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