mad - Story 87460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom echoed with the hollow sound of legal jargon. The judge’s words, the lawyer's polite pronouncements, felt like a constant barrage. He found out a few days before this hearing. He felt… an unbearable burden.

His birth mother sat across the room. Her face was contrite, her eyes filled with an apology he couldn't accept. He’d spent years constructing a life, and now, it was all crumbling around him.

He slammed his fist on the table, the sharp impact reverberating through the courtroom. He needed to escape, to run, to leave this whole mess behind. He didn’t want to be here. He didn’t want *them*.

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