mad - Story 87059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the pawn shop was oppressive, broken only by the incessant ticking of a cheap clock. The ticking felt like a metronome, marking the passage of time, the passing of his grandmother, and of his patience. Mark felt his stomach constrict.

He'd been told it was gone. Stolen. He wasn’t sure how to feel about finding it. But there it was, right there.

His fingers curled, his nails digging into his palms. "I need to buy that," he rasped, his voice raw. He wanted this over. He wanted to go home.

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