He felt a cold wave wash over him, a chilling premonition. The paper trembled in his hands, reflecting the fluorescent lights. His stomach churned, a knot of unease tightening with each passing second. He glared at the red ink, the audacity of the grade. He crumpled the paper, squeezing it into a ball until his knuckles were white. He wanted to throw it, destroy something, anything to alleviate this building tension.

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