mad - Story 87300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cake, meticulously decorated, sat forlornly on the kitchen counter. A single candle, unlit, stood atop it. The call, a terse notification of the party's demise, still echoed in her mind. Her shoulders slumped. Her hands trembled as she reached out and extinguished the solitary candle, the smoke filling the room. Tears pricked her eyes, but she refused to let them fall. She would fix this. She would make sure whoever made this decision would regret it.

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