mad - Story 87239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt like a tomb. Each object felt hostile, a constant reminder of the violation. She stalked from room to room, unable to find a space that would allow her to breath. She picked up a vase on the table, examining it carefully. She could throw it, she could break it, she could release some of this pressure.

The digital footprints, the endless comments, they swirled in her mind. She felt an urge to destroy something, to cause pain. She needed to feel something.

She slowly put the vase back on the table, feeling only a deepening emptiness.

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