mad - Story 87075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crumpled takeout container flew across the room, scattering greasy noodles across the hardwood floor. Lisa paced, the rhythmic thump of her boots against the floor a frantic counterpoint to the racing thoughts in her head. "NightOwl88" had been her anchor, her solace. They shared everything, from petty office gossip to dreams of escaping their mundane lives. Now, parked at the bus stop, she saw the girl she knew from her online chat, holding a bag of groceries, and laughing, with a girl she knew from her office. Lisa was trembling.

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