mad - Story 87169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding was lovely, too lovely. The atmosphere of joy was oppressive. He watched them laughing together, looking happy. Every happy couple made him want to scream.

He made a show of chatting with other guests, his voice overly loud, his laughter brittle and forced. He took multiple trips to the bar.

He saw her again, and his jaw tensed. He made a hasty exit to the restrooms, where he splashed cold water on his face, trying to cool the fire within. His reflection stared back, contorted with… something. He couldn't name it.

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