mad - Story 87187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery blurred before her eyes. Sarah found herself unable to appreciate anything. Instead, her thoughts replayed the scene at home, each detail re-emerging with crystalline clarity. The way Mark had flinched. His hurried words. The secret phone calls.

She gripped her handbag, her fingers digging into the leather. Each painting seemed to taunt her, full of hidden meanings and unspoken stories.

She turned and marched out, leaving the gallery and the art behind. The city streets felt oppressive, the crowd a sea of anonymous faces. She felt alone, adrift. She needed to go somewhere where she could yell.

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