mad - Story 87116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I gripped the hockey stick so tightly my knuckles were white. The coach's pronouncement replayed in my mind: "We're moving you to defense, Maya." Defense. After years of perfecting my forward skills, the quick passes, the offensive plays, the glorious goals...

My stomach twisted into a knot. I wanted to smash the stick against the boards, to scream at the audacity of it all. It felt like my very identity was being dismantled, piece by piece.

My vision blurred, the ice rink around me shimmering. I glared at the coach, who now looked away, as if unable to meet my gaze. "Fine," I muttered, my voice barely a whisper, as I turned away. My chest felt tight.

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