mad - Story 87095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes in the sink was a symphony of irritation. David watched his father wash them with meticulous care. He felt a fire in his chest. Everything, every single routine, felt calculated to irritate.

He'd spent weeks in his new room - his old room. It felt different now. The walls seemed to close in, shrinking with every passing hour. He felt the need to destroy the order.

"Don't you have anything better to do?" David finally said, his voice flat. His father looked up, his face an expressionless mask. It was the lack of reaction that was the worst.

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