mad - Story 87232 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A vein throbbed in Daniel’s forehead as he stared at the screen. His hands trembled, making the cursor dance erratically across the offending webpage. The comments section. Oh, the comments section. They were laughing. They were dissecting. They were… enjoying.

He kicked the chair away from his desk. It slammed against the wall, a hollow thud that did nothing to alleviate the pressure building in his chest. He paced, each stride a tightly controlled explosion of pent-up energy. His teeth ground together. This was personal; this was a violation.

He found himself wanting to break something, to scream, to dismantle the world around 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