mad - Story 87448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thickened with a palpable tension. The mundane objects of their shared space – the mismatched posters, the overflowing laundry basket, the half-eaten bag of chips – suddenly seemed to taunt him. He stared at the journal, the binding bent in a way he knew it shouldn't be. His roommate, Sam, was whistling while playing a video game.

He approached Sam, his gait stiff, his body rigid. “Sam,” he began, his voice flat. “Did you read my journal?”

Sam paused the game, looked up, and then continued whistling.

He was infuriated.

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