mad - Story 87056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shopkeeper's casual greeting felt like a personal affront. Liam’s shoulders were rigid, his jaw clenched so hard he thought his teeth might crack. He couldn’t believe it. After all these years, after all the searching…

He pointed, a trembling finger betraying the rage he couldn't vocalize. The diamond glittered, reflecting the harsh fluorescent light back at him. It was a taunt, a cruel reminder.

He took a deep breath, fighting to control the tremors in his hands. "That ring," he finally said, his voice a low growl. "I’m taking it."

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