mad - Story 87118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The head swim coach called me over, his expression unreadable. "David, we're going to put you on the backstroke." David felt a shiver run down his spine. He'd poured his heart and soul into the butterfly, the feel of the water, the way his body sliced through the currents. It was a perfect harmony.

He stared at the water, feeling the cool air against his skin, the sounds of the other swimmers echoing around him. His jaw tightened; a surge of fury coursed through his veins. He didn't want this.

He wanted to scream, to refuse, to walk away. Instead, he forced a tight smile. He wouldn't show them how much it affected him. He'd prove them wrong.

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