mad - Story 87410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unacceptable." The word barely escaped his lips, a tight whisper. David couldn't believe it. His sister, the one who'd barely even bothered to call, now had a claim? He felt a heat rising through his chest, spreading to his face.

He picked up a heavy book, its cover worn and faded, and hurled it across the room. It slammed against the wall with a loud thud. He needed to break something. To shatter something.

He stalked into the kitchen, his hands trembling. He had to stop himself. He needed to think. But thinking just made the feelings worse.

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