mad - Story 87072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly ripped the phone from the wall, the cord protesting as he paced the length of his tiny living room. He’d poured his heart out to "Cyber_Sage" for months, venting about his ex, his career, the crushing weight of loneliness. Now, a notification popped up on his dating app: “Cyber_Sage” was online. He swiped through profiles, a knot twisting in his gut as he caught the glint of familiar, kind eyes. It was Chloe, from the coffee shop downstairs, the one who always seemed so…sympathetic. The phone clattered to the floor as his fist clenched.

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