mad - Story 87119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the batting cage, the familiar rhythm of the machine feeding pitches lulling him into a routine. Until the coach strode over. "Mark, we're shifting you to the outfield." Mark felt his face flush hot. He was the catcher. This wasn't just a position change; it was a perceived lack of faith in him.

He slammed the bat against the ground, the sound echoing through the empty cage. He was not a failure. He had a reputation to keep. He wanted to break something, to vent the fury bubbling inside him.

He kicked at the dirt, sending dust swirling into the air. He would show them. He would 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