mad - Story 87197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah had just gotten the email, her chest immediately felt tight. Mr. Thompson. The art teacher. A wave of bitterness washed over her.

She had to get out of the house. She slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet room. She grabbed her keys, ignoring the knot twisting in her stomach.

As she drove, she accelerated. The car flew down the road, and she didn’t even notice the speed limit. She needed to be anywhere but home. She just needed space.

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