mad - Story 87210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat washed over him. The injustice of it was almost unbearable. He had a meeting to attend in under an hour. Now this. He watched his car, his dependable Subaru, being loaded onto the flatbed.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench, his teeth grinding together. He wanted to shout, to argue, to make them understand. But the words wouldn't come. He just stood there, rooted to the spot, watching his carefully constructed morning unravel before his eyes.

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