mad - Story 87016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Grandma's conversion to a new, unfamiliar faith left him feeling a sense of betrayal. He had always been the one to visit, the one to listen to her stories. Now, it was like a secret had been kept from him. His usual fondness had vanished.

He started to feel a burning sensation in his stomach. He didn’t want to be around her. He couldn’t stand the way she looked at him with the new-found serenity. He wanted to yell, to scream at her, to force her to explain her reasoning.

He stormed out of the kitchen, his chair scraping loudly against the floor. He went out into the garden and began to pull weeds from the rose bushes, ripping them from the soil with angry, jerky motions.

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