mad - Story 87428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He crumpled the invitation in his hand, the paper twisting and tearing under his grip. The words mocked him, the faces of his tormentors danced in his vision. He wanted to lash out, to hurt someone, to make them understand. His teeth ground together.

He paced the confines of his living room, each footstep a frustrated stomp. The walls felt like they were pressing in on him, suffocating him. He grabbed a chair and threw it against the wall. The wood cracked. It wasn’t enough.

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