mad - Story 87234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From her vantage point, high in her apartment building, she felt a burning heat rising inside of her. Her body felt rigid, every muscle tense. How could her deepest secrets, her most awkward moments be broadcast to the world like this? It was a betrayal. She felt a need to break something, to yell, to make someone understand.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself, but her heart raced. She walked quickly into the kitchen, looking for the source of her discomfort. She was going to find a way to make it right.

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