mad - Story 87219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was deafening. John was saying it was all a lie, a fabrication. He kept insisting he’d never said that. He claimed that she'd misunderstood everything. But she knew. She’d heard. She'd felt it. The betrayal cut deep, like a jagged shard of glass.

Her hands shook. She felt her chest tighten, and the walls seemed to be closing in. She needed to escape.

She rose from the table, every movement stiff and deliberate. She walked away.

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