mad - Story 87147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“He’s… gone?” Alex repeated, his voice barely a whisper. The receptionist nodded, her expression apologetic. He had practically lived at the clinic, under the guidance of Dr. Chen. Now, the office felt alien. He felt a sharp pang in his stomach. He didn’t want to be here. He turned and stumbled out onto the street, the sunlight blinding. He walked for blocks, aimlessly, the anger growing with each step, pushing him forward.

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