mad - Story 87076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ripped off his headphones, the music still pounding a chaotic rhythm in his ears. He shoved his chair back from the desk, knocking over a stack of books. He’d bared his soul to "EchoChamber," sharing his aspirations, his failures, his innermost self. Now, he was across the library from her. She, the girl he knew as the comforting voice of his friend, was currently laughing with someone else. His breath hitched in his throat as the world tilted.

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