mad - Story 87350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the afternoon was crushing. The relentless sun, the insistent chatter, the general air of frivolous consumption. Then, he saw him. Bartholomew. His bear. The seller, a middle-aged man with a jovial face, looked at him with innocent curiosity. He felt his face heat, his jaw clench. The price was exorbitant. Every offer he made was met with another counter offer. He had the distinct impression that he was being played. He had to have it. He had to show 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