mad - Story 87439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found the magazine discarded on a park bench. "Delicious Daisy's Doughnuts." Her doughnuts, stolen and then rebranded. The words blurred before her eyes, and she felt her chest constricting.

Her face flushed, and she felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. She wanted to scream, to wail. She closed her eyes to calm herself, but the image, the words, kept replaying in her mind.

She opened her eyes, picked up the magazine, and tore it in half, then again and again, until it was nothing but scraps.

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