mad - Story 87257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable,” Michael muttered, pacing the length of his small apartment. The notification popped up on his phone and he felt as though someone had punched him in the stomach. His novel, years in the making, now bearing the name of the acclaimed author, Charles Worthington.

He stopped, his hand clenching into a fist. He imagined confronting Worthington, his voice choked with emotion, but he knew that wouldn't happen. The thought filled him with frustration.

He grabbed his keys and ran out of the apartment. He needed to get away, to clear his head, to be anywhere but there. The pavement, the cold air, anything would be better than being inside.

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