mad - Story 87209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden, sharp stab of anger, so intense it made his vision swim. The tow truck. In his driveway. He’d parked there for years. He ran outside, the blood roaring in his ears. The driver, oblivious, continued his work.

“What do you think you’re doing?!” he roared, his voice cracking. He felt a sudden, almost uncontrollable urge to lash out. His hands clenched and unclenched. He was ready to fight them all.

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