mad - Story 87084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. He hated this, every single facet of it. The fence. The location. The entire situation.

He'd spent months cultivating a rapport with the neighborhood kids, the ones who always played in his yard. Now, the new fence meant they wouldn't come near. It was a calculated ploy to isolate him, he was sure of it.

He drove past his house, unable to face it. He pulled over to the side of the road, the engine idling, and buried his face in his hands. This was simply unbearable. He needed a way to fix this, immediately.

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