mad - Story 87203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. From her kitchen window, Emily saw her bright red convertible, the car she'd saved for years to buy, being lifted off the ground. A cold, heavy weight settled in her stomach. She rushed outside, her feet moving on autopilot, her heart hammering against her ribs.

"Stop!" she barked, her voice strained. The driver, a skinny kid with a greasy ponytail, ignored her. He was too busy fiddling with his phone. The air around her shimmered with a palpable tension. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to break something.

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