mad - Story 87343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around Sarah, mirroring the storm brewing inside her. She’d been navigating this flea market for an eternity, each garish trinket and neglected artifact adding to her frustration. And there, tucked away beneath a pile of dusty board games, was Theodore. Her Theodore. The bear that her family had accidentally given away during a move, decades ago. The old woman selling it looked at her. Her face twisted into a mask of polite indifference. “How much?” Sarah asked, her voice tight. The price was absurd. She felt a furious heat rise up her neck.

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