mad - Story 87185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes on the counter seemed amplified in the sudden quiet. Liam watched from the doorway, the dishes a blur. Her furtive glances at the phone had become a ritual. Each time, a fresh wave of something akin to molten metal washing over him.

He crossed his arms, his chest heavy. He wanted to shout, to demand an explanation, but the words caught in his throat.

"Is there something you want to share?" he said eventually, his voice barely a whisper.

She met his gaze, her eyes wide, but said nothing. He found the silence unbearable, the air thick with unspoken things. He pushed away from the doorway and went to sit at the table. He felt drained and empty.

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