mad - Story 87443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup nearly slipped from Maya's grasp as she stared at the empty space where her journal had been. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a heat that threatened to consume her. The air in the dorm room felt thick, suffocating. Across the room, Chloe was meticulously organizing her makeup, a picture of serene composure.

Maya marched across the room, her every movement deliberate, controlled. "Chloe," she began, her voice a low growl. "Where is my journal?"

Chloe didn’t look up. "I haven't seen it."

Maya leaned closer, her voice dropping to a harsh whisper. "Don't play coy with me. I *know* you did."

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