mad - Story 87055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the pawn shop felt thick, cloying, like a physical weight pressing down on Ethan’s shoulders. He could barely contain the simmering heat beneath his skin. He felt a constant clenching in his stomach, as if he’d swallowed a rock.

He scanned the display case, his breath hitched. There it was. His grandmother's ring. The ring she had worn every single day of her life. He felt the blood pounding in his ears.

He took a step, another, his knuckles turning white as he gripped the edge of the counter. "I… I want that," he managed to choke out, his voice hoarse. "That ring. Right now."

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