mad - Story 87470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, wooden writing desk, her father's, was propped up for inspection. Her sister, with a bored expression, was haggling over the price with a stranger. An intense heat flared in her chest. The world seemed to shrink, focusing on the callous transaction.

She took a step forward, her hands clenched into fists. The stranger’s smarmy tone, her sister’s casual indifference, were like a physical assault. The blood rushed to her head, making her dizzy.

"Get away from that," she hissed, her voice low and dangerous. She felt like a trapped animal, ready to lash out.

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