mad - Story 87083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, crisp and official-looking, sat on her kitchen counter, radiating a silent, infuriating judgment. Her jaw felt locked. Mr. Peterson, the man with the pristine lawn and the perfect life, was installing a fence.

She crumpled the letter in her hand, the paper crackling under her grip. The sheer audacity of it. The way he probably thought he could just *decide* these things.

She marched outside, her footsteps heavy on the flagstones. The fence posts were already planted, ugly and intrusive. She'd find a way to make him miserable. She'd find a way to make him *regret* this.

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