mad - Story 87246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, not recognizing the stranger staring back. His face was flushed, his eyes blazing. The knowledge that his health information had been mixed up with another person's was a betrayal of a deeply personal level. He ran the water in the sink and splashed his face, hoping to cool the simmering heat. He imagined ripping the medical records to shreds, then burning the pieces. Every time he replayed the conversation with the doctor, his pulse quickened and a fresh wave of resentment swept over 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