mad - Story 87450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in his stomach felt heavier than usual. His most private thoughts, exposed. He felt an intense urge to retreat, to disappear. The room spun slightly. His roommate, Leo, was studying at his desk, as if nothing had happened. He wanted to yell, but he couldn't form the words.

He walked towards the desk, each step an effort. “Leo,” he began, his voice wavering. He stopped, unable to meet Leo's gaze. He pointed at the notebook, the open page the evidence of the violation. The air felt thin.

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