mad - Story 87438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The computer screen flickered, and David's fingers tapped furiously against the desk. "Five-Star Spicy Chicken Stir-fry" was now a national sensation, and it was based on his recipe, word for word. He felt his head swim.

He could feel a tremor in his hands, and his breath hitched in his chest. He felt betrayed. A wave of exhaustion washed over him. He was a small chef, and they were the big guys.

He began typing a blistering email, each word a venomous strike. He would fight for the recipe. He wouldn't let them win.

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