mad - Story 87360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt like a pressure cooker. She found a tattered old doll, its face cracked and faded. She clenched her jaw, her gaze fixed on the doll. Why? Why would anyone leave this here? This was ridiculous.

She felt a knot of agitation tightening in her stomach. She opened the window and leaned out, gulping in the fresh air. It did little to soothe her. She ran her fingers across the dusty sill, leaving a smudge.

She wanted to dismantle something. With a swift movement, she hurled the doll across the attic. The doll slammed against a wall. She turned to the door, slammed it, and went to get her things. The previous owners would pay for this, one way or another.

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