mad - Story 87240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen was the enemy. He leaned back in his chair, trying to gain perspective, but the words still buzzed, echoing in his brain. The internet. The trolls. They felt like a pack of wolves, tearing him apart piece by piece.

He grabbed the nearest object – a pen. He began to twist it in his fingers, hard, as if he could crush the reality into nothingness. The pen snapped. The plastic cracked, and the ink leaked. He didn't even notice.

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