mad - Story 87099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He threw the remote at the television screen, the plastic clattering uselessly against the glass. He felt his face heat up, his pulse drumming against his eardrums. He hadn't meant to, but the screen now displayed a spider web crack.

The commercials and the canned laughter were now a cacophony. Every word, every image, was an attack. He wanted to get up and destroy everything.

His father’s voice, calm and measured, came from the doorway. “What happened in here?” His composure was more than he could bear. His father’s perfect composure, his perfect home, his perfect life.

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