mad - Story 87198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The principal’s polite smile did nothing to soothe the tremor in Mark's hands. He’d requested this meeting, but now, facing the principal, he felt his carefully constructed composure fraying at the edges.

“I understand your concerns, Mr. Davis,” the principal began, her voice smooth and professional.

“Concerns?” Mark cut her off, his voice sharper than he intended. “This is a disaster. Mr. Evans was a tyrant. My life was awful with that man. How can my son thrive under him?” He leaned forward, his eyes burning.

The principal raised her eyebrows slightly, but held his gaze. Mark took a deep breath, trying to regain control. This wasn't how he wanted this to go. But still…

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