mad - Story 87280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of the new environment, the new boss, sent a shiver down her spine. The transfer felt like a betrayal. The meticulous organization she had cultivated was gone, replaced by a chaotic mess.

Her hands shook as she picked up the phone. She slammed it down again, the dial tone a shrill echo in the now-empty office. She could feel a knot forming in her stomach, a physical representation of her resentment. The feeling was a dark, twisting vortex within her.

She had to get out of there. Now.

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