mad - Story 87478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package, addressed to the vacant lot that used to be a house, was ridiculous. It was a fresh outrage every time this happened. He was the owner now, and he had to deal with this, with everything. He picked it up with a grimace.

His shoulders were stiff, his neck ached. He didn't bother opening it. He strode over to the recycling bin and tossed it inside. He felt a flicker of frustration, but mostly he was just tired. Tired of it all.

He walked back inside, the silence of the empty house pressing in on him. He felt hollow, empty, and very, very alone.

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