mad - Story 87406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was suffocating. Martha wanted to shout, to unleash the fury that simmered within her. "Joint ownership." The words echoed inside her head, each syllable a hammer blow. Her brother, the feckless one, would now benefit? Utterly absurd.

She gripped the armrests of her chair so tightly her knuckles whitened. The floral curtains seemed to mock her, their cheerful pattern jarring against the turmoil inside her. She wanted to rip them down, to tear them to shreds.

She stood abruptly, her heart pounding in her chest. She needed to escape, to breathe air that wasn't contaminated with this fresh wound. She was going to be sick.

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