mad - Story 87165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band struck up a song, and the dance floor filled. He watched as his ex, Chloe, accepted a dance invitation from someone else. It felt like a punch to the gut. Michael felt a strange tingling in his hands.

He excused himself from the people he was chatting with, and made a beeline for the bar. He ordered a strong drink, and then another.

He watched her throughout the entire song. Her smile, her laughter… He couldn’t stand it. He slammed the empty glass on the counter, the sound echoing in his ears. He needed to get away from here. NOW.

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