mad - Story 87052 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Amelia’s hands as she scanned the cluttered shelves. The pawn shop felt suffocating, the air thick with the scent of forgotten lives. A vein in her forehead throbbed. This place... this place was an insult.

She shoved a stack of tarnished silverware aside, her breath catching in her throat. There. A glint of emerald. It couldn’t be. It *was* the ring. Her grandmother’s ring, the one that had vanished after the funeral.

Amelia’s eyes narrowed. This was wrong. So profoundly, infuriatingly wrong. She spun on her heel, her grip tightening on her purse, and almost screamed at the owner: "What’s the price?"

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