The pristine white paper felt like a slap in the face. "Own a vintage car," it stated, in elegant calligraphy. He'd always scoffed at her sensible car. He wanted a *vintage car*?

Her cheeks burned. She yanked open a kitchen drawer and started throwing things – utensils, napkins, a half-eaten bag of chips. The clatter and chaos offered a small measure of satisfaction.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to break something. She wanted to undo everything.

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