mad - Story 87417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless thrum of the city was a physical assault on Ethan’s senses. The blare of horns, the chatter of crowds, the insistent demands for his attention. He was already reeling. Then, he found it. The wallet, lying discarded on the curb.

His heart hammered against his ribs as he opened it. So much money. His breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. The anger flared in his gut. The way he had been treated that morning. The way he was ignored. His entire body began to shake.

He shoved the wallet into his pocket, the leather a suffocating weight. He walked into the nearby liquor store and bought the most expensive bottle of scotch.

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