The website, a sleek and professionally designed platform, showcased his intricate digital art. Except, it wasn't *his* website. And the art wasn't his. It felt like a knife twisting in his gut.

He slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the silence of his room. He walked to the window, the city lights blurring through the rain. The blatant theft felt like a personal attack.

He wanted to smash something, to tear down the world around him. He felt the cold seep into his bones, and felt the hot liquid of tears begin to roll down his cheeks. He could feel his hands shaking, and the rising feeling of needing to do anything.

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