mad - Story 87108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to soothe the tension knotting his shoulders. He surveyed his office, his domain for the past decade, and the new guy, looking around with a greedy gaze. He felt a stab of fury.

He walked the trainee, a cocky kid named Kevin, through the filing system, herding him from cabinet to cabinet. Every file, every document, held a memory, a moment of triumph, a battle fought and won. And now, he was handing it over.

“And this… this is where we keep the…" He forced a smile, a grimace. He felt his face contort with an emotion he could barely control. He struggled to articulate his resentment. “Important stuff.”

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