mad - Story 87449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The light in the room seemed too bright, the silence deafening. The journal lay open, the ink seeming to bleed out and stain everything. He felt a hot, burning feeling in his throat, a tightness in his chest. Across the room, his roommate, Chris, was meticulously cleaning his shoes, a calm and collected façade. He wanted to rip something, to destroy the calmness.

He walked over to Chris, his steps slow and deliberate. “Chris,” he said, his voice flat. "Did you go through my things?"

Chris looked up, his expression neutral. "What are you talking about?"

He held up the journal. He knew the answer.

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