mad - Story 87453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always felt like an outsider, a misplaced puzzle piece. Now, the DNA results confirmed it. He felt… a hollow emptiness blossoming inside him. A cold, expansive void. He walked into his workshop, the scent of sawdust and varnish usually a comfort. Today, it was just another irritant.

He picked up his favorite chisel, running his thumb over the sharp edge. The wood, his usual companion, offered no solace. He gripped the tool so tightly his knuckles were white. He wanted to carve, to create, to channel this… this *thing* inside him.

He slammed the chisel onto a block of oak, the wood splintering under the force. He let out a frustrated grunt, each strike a frustrated punctuation mark. The wood didn’t deserve his anger. He didn’t deserve his.

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