mad - Story 87409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom’s sterile atmosphere only intensified the rage. The lawyer had finished his recitation, his voice now a distant hum to Maya. Her brother. The leech. Suddenly, he was entitled to a portion of her history? She could feel her jaw clenching, her teeth grinding against each other.

She stalked through the house, her heels echoing on the polished wooden floors. Every single item spoke of betrayal. The portrait on the wall, the music box on the table – a constant reminder of the unfairness. She found herself clutching her chest.

She went to the window, staring out at the garden. The anger burned a hole in her chest. She wanted to set it all ablaze.

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