mad - Story 87097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the fluorescent lights in the garage felt oppressive. It was his father’s domain, and the air was thick with the scent of motor oil and disapproval. James kicked the tire iron against the concrete floor. He'd been asked to help change a flat.

He hated this house, and he hated his father, and he hated the fact that he was back here. He imagined the sound of smashing glass, the shattering into a thousand pieces of the illusion of control.

"What's wrong with you?" his father asked, his voice low. James didn't answer. He just wanted to break something.

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