mad - Story 87228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with suppressed energy. He'd never felt so… wound up. He stood in the hallway of his childhood home, surrounded by the remnants of his past. The scent of old paper and stale glue filled his nostrils.

He snatched up a math test, his eyes scanning the red marks. He saw his mistakes. He remembered the feeling of failure. He clenched his jaw.

He crumpled the test in his hand, feeling the paper tear. Why? What was the purpose of this? He needed to remove himself from this situation. He couldn't deal.

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