mad - Story 87057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop felt like a tomb. It reeked of stale cigarette smoke and despair. Clara's vision blurred, the edges of everything softening. She felt a burning ache in her chest, a physical manifestation of the fury bubbling inside her.

There it was. Sitting amongst the junk, the ring. A cold, hard reminder of the theft. The injustice of it all stole her breath.

She stared, unblinking. "That ring," she began, the words catching in her throat, "is… mine." A tremor shook her voice, betraying the turmoil within. "I need 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