mad - Story 87414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind howled, mirroring the unrest within David. He found the wallet near the overflowing dumpster, a crumpled mess of discarded receipts swirling around it. He picked it up with a grimace.

He flipped it open, and his breath hitched. So much money. He needed to pay the rent. He needed to pay his debts. He needed to do something, anything, to alleviate this crushing weight. His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms. He thought about that job offer. He still couldn't take it and it filled him with rage.

He shoved the wallet into his pocket, the leather feeling strangely hot against his thigh. He felt his teeth grind. He began to pace.

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