mad - Story 87279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. He had been ripped from his team, his comfort zone. Now he had to report to the sales department, the department of backstabbers and glory hounds. His stomach was a tight knot.

He pictured the manager, the man who had orchestrated this move, his face the target of his unyielding wrath. He would get his revenge.

The elevator doors opened with a soft "ding," and he stepped into the new environment, his shoulders stiff, his gaze fixed straight ahead. He would not show them anything.

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