mad - Story 87142 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah re-read the notice. No forwarding address. No phone number. Just a curt “Goodbye.” Her jaw tightened. She gripped the cold metal railing of the fire escape, gazing down at the bustling city below. It all felt so…wrong. How dare he? After all the late nights, the critiques, the unwavering belief in her talent. She took a fierce breath, the air stinging her lungs. She ripped the flyer from the bulletin board, shredding it into tiny, unreadable pieces. She would not let him get away with it.

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