mad - Story 87030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of his brother's laughter felt like a grating on his nerves. David could feel the blood pumping in his ears. He was supposed to be happy for his family, but the sight of the drawing, the omnipresent drawings, made him want to explode.

He had said nothing, but he could feel the pressure building. He took a sip of his drink and stood up to leave. He felt the cold pressure of anger inside him, and nothing else.

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