mad - Story 87020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a bad joke. His sister, the free-spirited one, the rebel, was now a devotee. He watched her from across the table, his eyes narrowed. He took a long, slow sip of his water, his hand shaking.

He found himself tapping his fingers against the table. The tapping increased in tempo. He wanted to scream. He wanted to dismantle everything. He abruptly stood.

He walked outside. He lit a cigarette, even though he'd quit months ago. He puffed angrily, the smoke filling his lungs, a poor substitute for a satisfying scream.

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