He had the audacity to call it "fiction". The book, detailing their life, made her want to weep. It was a perversion of their shared experiences, a betrayal of everything they had built together. Her skin felt too tight.

I wanted to scream. I wanted to tear up the pages and feed them to the fire. I felt trapped. He'd made a mockery of their relationship.

She pushed herself to her feet, her legs shaky. She had to get out, to breathe. The air in the apartment had become stagnant, filled with the stench of deceit.

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