mad - Story 87292 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No way,” Mark growled, the phone clattering onto the kitchen counter. His jaw ticked. His best friend, Liam, on the other end, was apparently the harbinger of this disaster. The air in the kitchen felt suddenly thick, suffocating. He paced, each footfall a heavy thud against the linoleum. He pictured the cake, the friends, the stupid party hats. He’d spent a fortune. He felt a burning sensation in his chest. “Just… just tell them to forget it,” he finally choked out, his voice a low growl.

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