mad - Story 87160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the job offer. He felt a surge of heat, a flush rising on his face. He'd been so sure he was going to get this, and then… there it was. His best friend had been selected.

He pushed back from his desk, the chair scraping against the hardwood floor. He was not happy. He paced, each stride filled with a pent-up energy. He wanted to break something, to yell, to make the world acknowledge the unfairness of it all.

He had to get out of this apartment. He had to go *somewhere* and escape his feelings.

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