mad - Story 87023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car keys felt heavy in Amelia's palm. She had just finished a lengthy phone call with her brother about something she wasn't supposed to know. The conversation ended with her brother's infuriatingly calm assurances and Amelia's barely contained gritting teeth. She stared at the child's art again. She grabbed the drawing of Bartholomew off the refrigerator door. The blue monstrosity stared back at her with his unsettling smile.

She tore the drawing in half, then in quarters, her movements sharp and jerky. She would not allow that creature to come back to haunt her. The memory of Bartholomew's "pranks" flooded back; the incessant whispers and the way the world seemed off kilter whenever he was "around." She balled up the shredded pieces and tossed them in the trash, then grabbed the keys, her heart hammering against her ribs.

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