mad - Story 87344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He shoved the rusty gate open, the screech a fitting soundtrack to his mood. He’d been expecting a peaceful Sunday afternoon, not this. He'd stumbled upon the yard sale, hoping to find a vintage record, instead, a surge of emotion had washed over him. He hated the woman with the flowered dress, hated her casual demeanor as she pointed to the bear. Reginald. His bear. The price was ridiculous. He fought the urge to throw the teddy to the ground. "That's highway robbery!" He managed to choke out.

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