mad - Story 87256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed a bottle of scotch and poured a hefty shot. Liam swallowed it down in one gulp, the liquid burning a path down his throat. His writing, his passion, his livelihood – stolen. The name “Marcus Bellweather” stared back at him from the screen.

He poured another shot, the amber liquid sloshing over the side of the glass. He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes. He should have seen it coming. He should have known.

He threw the glass against the fireplace, watching the glass scatter. The sound, the destruction, the feeling of the glass shattering was the only thing that gave him any satisfaction at all.

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