mad - Story 87466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found his sister, Sarah, packing boxes in the attic. His grandfather's war medals, tarnished but precious, were being bundled up for auction. He felt a violent churning in his stomach. The air, usually stale, seemed to vibrate with a suppressed energy.

He advanced towards her, each step filled with an almost unbearable intensity. Her casual indifference, her lack of understanding, fueled his internal fire.

"What do you think you're doing?" he demanded, his voice a low, threatening rumble. He resisted the urge to grab them from her.

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