mad - Story 87468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The auction catalog lay open on the coffee table. Her aunt, eyes gleaming with avarice, was pointing at a picture of the antique rocking chair. A wave of dizziness washed over her. The room felt like it was tilting.

She leaned back against the sofa, her vision blurring. Her heart was a furious drumbeat against her ribs. The soft, familiar cushions suddenly felt like something to push against.

"Absolutely not," she choked out, the words catching in her throat. The thought of strangers sitting in that chair… it was too much.

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