mad - Story 87415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Damn it!” Michael roared, kicking the tires of his beat-up sedan. The engine wouldn't start. Again. He swore under his breath, a string of curses that felt inadequate to convey the depth of his frustration. That bill had been overdue. That mechanic had been lying to him. His world was crumbling. He had found the wallet near the gas station.

He picked it up, feeling his muscles tense. He opened it, his eyes widening. He thought about the mechanic’s grin. He thought about the smug satisfaction he would have when he got the money. He'd show them all.

He closed the wallet, a slow, deliberate movement. Then, he got in the car. It still wouldn't start.

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