mad - Story 87447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped dorm room felt like a cage. Every breath felt forced. The familiar scent of lavender from Clara’s diffuser seemed to mock her. Her journal sat open on her desk, the words she’d penned in the dead of night now exposed. Across the room, Clara was humming a cheerful tune while organizing her closet. An almost unbearable pressure built in Lily’s chest.

"Clara," Lily stated, her voice tight, "I need an explanation."

Clara turned around, her smile faltering slightly. "About what?"

Lily gestured towards the journal, unable to find the words to express the storm raging inside her.

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