mad - Story 87480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"For Ms. Reynolds," the package proclaimed. Reynolds had been a nightmare. Late rent. Loud parties. Constant complaints. The memory of it made her stomach clench. The sheer audacity of her, still sending things here.

She was standing in the doorway, her arms crossed. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She didn’t want to look at the box, but she couldn’t tear her eyes away. She took a step forward, then another.

She bent down and picked it up. She then hurled it into the dumpster, as hard as she could. A sudden release of pent up energy. Then, she slammed the lid shut.

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