mad - Story 87220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last plate crashed to the floor. The sound, sharp and final, echoed through the kitchen. He could feel his face burning, his chest constricted. "I thought we agreed!" He had yelled. "We agreed!"

The words felt inadequate, hollow, against the wall of his memory. She’d denied everything, rewrote their history, and now he was left standing in the wreckage.

He stared at the broken shards. His hands were clenched into fists. He breathed deeply, trying to regain control. He grabbed his coat, walked out, and slammed the door behind him.

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