mad - Story 87085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the construction hammered at her skull. She wanted to scream. That Mr. Grumbly. Always trying to control everything. The fence, it blocked her view of the lake, her only solace.

She yanked the curtains closed, plunging her living room into a dim twilight. The constant noise, it was making her chest ache. She felt a burning sensation in her stomach.

She walked to the window and slammed it shut, her face contorted in a silent scream. She was going to make him pay, she vowed, her voice barely a whisper. She would find a way.

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