He stared at his reflection in the mirror, barely recognizing the tense, tight face that stared back. His jaw was locked. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further. He began to pace his small room, each step a measure of his frustration. He stopped in front of the window, his gaze fixed on the bustling street below. People, going about their lives, seemingly unburdened. He wanted to shake them, to scream at them, to force them to understand the injustice of it all. He balled his hands into fists.

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