mad - Story 87419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the abandoned warehouse was broken only by the drip, drip, drip of water, each drop a tiny hammer blow against John’s already frayed nerves. He found the wallet near a pile of rubble. His hands trembled as he picked it up, its cold surface a stark contrast to the heat rising in his chest.

He opened it. The sight of the cash made him clench his jaw. He’d lost everything. His family, his job. His life was crumbling around him. The injustice of it all. The unfairness.

He pulled out the money, ripping it from the wallet. Then, he set the wallet on fire.

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