The typed document was crisp and clinical, a stark contrast to the emotional turmoil surging through David. Item number three: "Start a business." He’d poured his heart and soul into their shared company, a venture she'd always shown a complete lack of interest in.

He slammed his laptop shut, the abrupt sound startling even himself. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes, a familiar headache taking hold. He walked to the window, the rain blurring the city lights.

He imagined her, alone, independent, achieving her goals without him. The thought twisted a knot in his stomach.

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