mad - Story 87158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The rejection stung. He had poured his heart and soul into the interview and expected something. He stalked around his apartment. His roommate, Mark, had been so sure he’d get the job. Mark, who, in his infinite, oblivious optimism, was probably already congratulating his other friend, David.

He yanked open the refrigerator, slamming the door shut with a loud crash. He couldn't eat. He couldn’t think. He felt a surge of pure, raw energy coursing through him, urging him to destroy something, anything.

He slumped onto the couch, feeling utterly drained.

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