mad - Story 87157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news settled in his stomach, a cold, hard lump. He felt a sudden, fierce urge to break something. His best friend, Daniel, had gotten the internship, not him. Daniel, who had barely lifted a finger during their shared projects. Daniel, who was always so… lucky.

He squeezed the stress ball until it groaned, the rubbery texture doing nothing to soothe his inner turmoil. He could feel the frustration bubbling, threatening to erupt. He wanted to blame someone, to lash out, to make Daniel feel even a fraction of what he was feeling.

He walked to the window, staring out at the cityscape, feeling an intense burning behind his eyes.

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