mad - Story 87229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the room was deafening, the quiet punctuated only by the frantic beat of his own heart. He sat on the floor, surrounded by piles of paper. He had found it all in the spare room.

He reached out and grabbed a page. He saw a project from his childhood on the subject of space. He hated space. He wanted to rip it to shreds.

He tossed the project back in the pile. He felt a deep, chilling cold move through his body. He wanted to disappear. He needed to get 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