mad - Story 87346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the fluffy, slightly-worn bear in disbelief. It was her bear! The little bear that had been with her throughout a chaotic and unhappy childhood. How dare they sell it? A wave of red surged over Clara's vision. She knew that old woman’s type; the kind who hoarded things and sold them for more than their worth. Her voice was sharp as she spoke. "Do you realize what this is?" she demanded, gesturing at the bear. "That bear is irreplaceable!" The seller merely shrugged. Clara's fists clenched.

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