mad - Story 87164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He arrived late, deliberately. The music was already thumping, and people were laughing. He spotted her immediately, tucked into a corner talking with some of her friends. He felt a surge of… something. Anger? Frustration? He wasn’t sure. What he was certain of was that he wanted to rip his tie off.

He grabbed a drink from the bar, downing it in one swift gulp. He needed something to calm the churning inside him.

He saw her turn, and her eyes met his. He felt himself stiffen, his jaw setting. He raised his glass in a mock salute, the gesture deliberately insolent. He turned away, heading towards the open bar and ordered a double whiskey.

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