mad - Story 87458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the hospital room felt thick, heavy with unspoken truths. Liam stood at his father’s bedside, the man’s frail frame a stark contrast to the strength Liam had always attributed to him. He’d just learned the truth. His father was not his father. He felt a deep, profound ache.

He wanted to scream at his father, to demand answers, to punish him for the deception. But the old man lay silent, his eyes closed. Liam’s hand clenched into a fist. He felt a surge of… something akin to hatred.

He turned away from the bed, unable to bear the sight. He was going to leave and never look back.

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