mad - Story 87224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, are you *kidding* me?" His voice was a harsh whisper, laced with disbelief. He stood in the doorway of her study, surveying the scene. The shelves were overflowing with plastic bins and cardboard boxes. Every single class project, art piece, and worksheet from his childhood was meticulously filed away.

He strode into the room, his movements stiff. He pointed a shaking finger at a particularly awful stick-figure drawing. He wanted to shout. He wanted to ask her what she thought she was doing.

His face was flushed, his blood was boiling. He could barely breathe. What had she been thinking?

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