mad - Story 87154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight seemed too bright, the birdsong too cheerful. She stared at the empty parking space, her teeth grinding together. Her friend, Chloe, had just pulled in, a smug grin plastered across her face. Chloe, who had a knack for succeeding at everything, even if she didn’t deserve it.

She felt a tremor in her hands. The audition, the weeks of preparation, the hopes, all for nothing. The audition had been rigged, she was sure of it, she had done far better.

She leaned against her car, watching Chloe emerge. She wanted to scream something hurtful. She turned and walked away, not bothering to greet her.

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