mad - Story 87436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the billboard, the image of his award-winning chili mockingly large. "Uncle Joe's Champion Chili," the sign boasted, in big, bold letters. His stomach twisted, a bitter knot forming. Joe, the man who had always belittled his culinary skills.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of frustration. His jaw was clenched, his teeth grinding. He felt the blood pounding in his temples. He was going to expose him, and the world would know the truth.

He pulled out his phone, his fingers trembling as he dialed a number. This wasn't going to be over quickly.

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