The clock ticked loudly in the quiet study, each second amplifying her growing distress. He'd spent months writing this, carefully crafting this fictional world, based on her. It was a mockery of their shared life.

She balled her fists and slammed them down on the desk, scattering papers. She wanted to obliterate everything, to erase the very existence of the book. The pain was physical, a burning sensation in her chest.

She stood up and paced the room. "How could he?" she muttered under her breath. The words felt like knives twisting in her gut. She wouldn't let him get away with this.

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