mad - Story 87012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice, usually a gentle melody, now seemed to grate on his nerves. "I've found true peace," she had said, her eyes shining with a serene light. He slammed the cupboard door, the wood vibrating against his palm. Peace? After everything? He ripped open a bag of chips with unnecessary force.

He hated it. The new clothes, the altered vocabulary, the constant talk of karma and enlightenment. He hated the way she looked at him, with a pitying gaze that made his stomach churn. She was trying to convert the whole family. He imagined it.

He stalked through the house, each step a stomp, the floorboards groaning under his weight. He needed to be alone, to feel the tight knot in his chest loosen, even a little. The air was heavy, the silence oppressive. He slammed the front door and walked towards the woods.

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:

`C`	0.448
`骂`	0.344
`est`	0.340
`🤬`	0.336
`aggravated`	0.332

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.495
`de`	-0.485
`la`	-0.387
`H`	-0.344
`latter`	-0.290