mad - Story 87128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you kidding me?” said Sarah, her voice clipped and sharp. Her grandmother's funeral was tomorrow. The delay made her want to destroy the screens. She gripped the edge of the seat, her knuckles white.

She pictured the service, the eulogies, the gravesite. She could practically taste the sorrow that was waiting for her. She could feel the anger starting to bubble. She wanted to lash out.

She pulled at her hair. This airline was deliberately trying to sabotage her. She got up and stalked towards the nearest airline worker, ready to unload.

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