mad - Story 87418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air of the bus station hung heavy with the scent of cheap coffee and despair. Emily, her jaw locked, felt like she was suffocating. She found the wallet tucked under a bench, the leather worn and cracked.

She flipped it open, a sharp intake of breath escaping her lips. The money was a fortune. She had to get out of there. This town was a trap. This life was a prison. Her fists clenched.

She slammed the wallet shut and looked at her phone. She would take it and disappear, and they would never find her.

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