mad - Story 87347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint of the picnic table seemed to mock Henry's internal state. He'd been looking for something, anything, to quell the building resentment within him. The yard sale was a bust. Then, he saw it. Cuthbert. His childhood companion, now defiled by a price tag. The seller, a teenager with a bored expression, quoted a price. Henry felt a pressure building behind his eyes. He should just walk away. He could just let it go. But he couldn't.

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