mad - Story 87060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grime-coated window of the pawn shop seemed to mock Emily. The light cast harsh shadows. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, as though they were about to burst. This place… this place was an abomination.

Her gaze zeroed in on the familiar gleam. A wave of nausea washed over her. This ring… It was a physical manifestation of her family's betrayal.

She slammed her fist on the counter, the sound echoing through the room. "That ring," she said, her voice dangerously quiet, "I need to purchase it immediately. 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