mad - Story 87071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of Maya's apartment, mirroring the turmoil inside her. She slammed the laptop shut with a resounding clap. Hours, weeks even, she'd spent confiding in "StarryEyedDreamer" about her job, her awful roommate, her entire pathetic life. Now, scrolling through a local news feed, there it was: "Local Artist to Exhibit New Collection." StarryEyedDreamer's online persona was a struggling artist. And the featured artist's name? Liam. Liam, who lived...two blocks away. She grabbed her keys, ignoring the tremor in her hands.

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