mad - Story 87281 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on Amelia's screen: "Chad Reynolds sent you a friend request." She slammed her laptop shut with a decisive thud. Her jaw clenched so tightly she thought she might crack a tooth. A wave of heat washed over her, starting in her chest and spreading to her fingertips. He had the audacity! After everything. She stood, pacing the length of her small apartment, her knuckles white as she repeatedly balled her fists. The coffee she'd just made sat untouched on the table, already cold.

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