He stared at the email, the red "F" burning a hole in his screen. It was impossible. He'd aced every quiz, participated in every discussion. His jaw clenched so tight he felt a muscle spasm. He pushed back his chair, the screech echoing in the empty dorm room. His fists clenched, nails biting into his palms. He grabbed his phone and started pacing, dialing his mom's number, then quickly ending the call before it could connect. He didn’t want to talk to anyone right 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