mad - Story 87427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek, glossy invitation felt like a punch to the gut. *Celebrate! Reunite! Reminisce!* The words felt obscene. She had worked so hard to escape those memories, those people. Now, they were trying to drag her back. A fire flared in her belly, a consuming heat.

She took a deep breath, trying to control the shaking in her hands. She grabbed a vase from the table and hurled it against the wall. The ceramic shattered, the pieces scattering across the floor. She needed to break something. She needed to feel something.

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