mad - Story 87435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the counter, the sound grating. She stared at the caller ID, her jaw tight. It was her cousin, praising the "newly discovered" recipe for lemon curd tarts in a popular cookbook. *Her* recipe.

She ignored the call, a hot rage burning behind her eyes. Her hands trembled as she started to pace the kitchen. The injustice of it was a physical blow. She felt trapped.

She grabbed a mixing bowl and slammed it onto the counter with a loud crack, the sound a cathartic release. She had to do something, she decided. She wouldn't let this go.

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