mad - Story 87054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shop owner, a thin man with watery eyes, seemed to be enjoying the spectacle. He knew, oh, he *knew* the history behind that ring. He was enjoying the drama. Sarah's teeth ground together.

She’d been fighting this feeling all morning. It was a suffocating pressure behind her eyes, the same feeling that always came after the family holiday. She was here, though. She had to be.

The ring. It felt like a betrayal, seeing it here. The emerald glowed, mocking her. "That ring… I want it," she said, her voice dangerously calm, the calm before the storm. "How much?"

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