mad - Story 87456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David tossed the adoption papers across the table. They’d been hidden, a secret whispered in the shadows of his past. The revelation felt like being punched in the gut. He felt a bitter, icy sting.

His adoptive parents, sitting across from him, looked stricken. Their faces, usually radiating love and reassurance, now wore expressions of shame and fear. He wanted to inflict on them the hurt he was experiencing.

“Why?” he demanded, his voice a low growl. He was filled with a desire to dismantle their carefully constructed reality, to expose the cracks beneath the surface. He glared at them, his eyes burning into their souls.

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