mad - Story 87454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office seemed to shrink with every passing minute. James, the man sitting across from him, had broken the news. Adopted. He wanted to bolt, to escape the suffocating air, the polite pretense. He felt a profound sense of… being poisoned.

He’d always held a deep appreciation for his family. He’d reveled in the thought of his ancestors. He felt like his foundation had been blown up.

He leaned back in the chair, a cold wave washing over him. He was a fraud. A pretender. “Where… where do I go from here?” he asked, his voice a strained whisper. The lawyer, with his calm, professional demeanor, offered answers, but James felt incapable of absorbing anything. It was all a blur.

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