He picked up the crumpled list from the nightstand, his fingers flexing, wanting to tear it to shreds. "See a Broadway show." He'd offered to take her to every show that came to town.

A coldness settled in his gut. He tossed the list onto the bed and turned away, trying to escape the fury that swirled inside him.

The silence of their bedroom was suddenly deafening. He walked to the window and looked out at the street below, the flickering streetlights reflecting in his eyes.

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