The silence in the apartment was deafening, punctuated only by the rapid thumping of her own heart. He'd been so careful, so secretive. But the document on the computer was undeniable. It was a vicious depiction, a personal attack.

“Unbelievable,” she breathed, her voice barely a whisper. She wanted to smash the monitor, to erase every word he’d written. Her hands trembled, her limbs felt heavy.

She sank into the armchair, the leather cool against her skin. The world seemed to tilt. The betrayal hit her like a punch.

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