mad - Story 87339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Sweet Surrender," the bakery where he bought his wife's favorite treats, was permanently shuttered. The words, splashed across the storefront, were a blow. He'd planned to pick up a box of her favorite éclairs today. Now, he would be going home empty-handed.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a constriction that made it difficult to breathe. He wanted to scream. He wanted to go inside, to demand an explanation, to change the course of things, but he knew it was all futile.

He began to walk, his shoulders hunched. The city seemed brighter, louder, and more hostile than usual. He felt like the entire world was conspiring against him.

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