mad - Story 87385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral arrangement on the kitchen counter was a punch in the gut. They were *his* favorite flowers. Emily stared at them, the sweet scent suddenly cloying, suffocating. Across the table, the woman—another victim of this deceit—was nervously fiddling with her phone, her eyes darting around the room.

Emily's hands trembled as she gestured to the bouquet. They'd been given to her last week on her birthday. She’d been touched that David remembered. Now, the flowers seemed like a cruel joke, a taunt.

"Did he… give these to you too?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper. The other woman nodded, her face mirroring Emily's shock and revulsion. Emily stood up abruptly, knocking over her chair. She grabbed her coat, not even bothering to look at the other woman.

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