mad - Story 87367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was tucked between a credit card offer and a coupon for pizza. The cheerful font on the front seemed to mock her. She felt an icy grip tighten around her heart. She flipped the card over and over, desperately searching for a clue, a name, anything.

She ripped the card in half, then again, then again, until the pieces were tiny shreds. She threw them into the trash, her movements jerky and abrupt. Her jaw felt locked.

She went to the kitchen and grabbed a box of cereal. She poured herself a bowl, but the food felt like sawdust in her mouth. She pushed the bowl away, the uneaten cereal staring back at her.

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