mad - Story 87182 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been doing it for weeks, sneaking off to the back patio. John, restless, paced the living room, the Persian rug feeling rough beneath his feet. The silence that followed each call grated on him. It was a silence filled with whispered secrets.

His chest constricted. He could feel the familiar pressure building behind his eyes. He stopped pacing and slammed his fist on the mantelpiece, sending a framed photograph of them together wobbling.

"What is it?" he demanded, the words sharp and clipped when he finally returned.

She just shook her head, her face a mask. A mask that he wanted to tear away. He wanted to scream.

He clenched his teeth, feeling the muscles in his jaw ache. "Don't you dare give me that blank stare."

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