He grabbed the magazine, the cover image of his essay staring back at him. David's eyes narrowed. His jaw clenched so tight he felt a muscle spasm. He flipped through the pages, the glossy paper practically crackling in his grip. The audacity of it!

He took a deep breath, trying to regain control. His chest felt constricted. His pulse hammered in his ears. He crumpled the magazine into a ball. His heart raced.

He threw the magazine across the room. The object collided with the wall with a sickening thud. He didn't even notice. He was completely consumed.

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