mad - Story 87294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, and Leo, anticipating a deluge of guests, practically bounded to the door. Standing there, however, was his wife, her face drawn, her voice hesitant. "About the party…" she began. He cut her off, a sharp, involuntary laugh escaping his lips. His shoulders stiffened. He’d imagined the cheers, the laughter, the surprised looks. Now, nothing. He shoved his hands in his pockets, knuckles whitening, and stepped outside, suddenly needing air.

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