mad - Story 87517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the fifth tryout, and Liam still hadn't made a single basket. The final buzzer sounded, and Coach Ramirez called the team over. Liam knew what was coming. The pit in his stomach intensified.

The coach’s words were clipped, professional, yet they landed like blows. The sting was immediate, sharp. He bit down hard on his lip, tasting blood. He didn’t want to cry, not in front of everyone.

Liam wanted to rip his jersey off, to tear up the court. He wanted to disappear. He felt a desperate urge to get away, to run, to escape the sight of the coach, the knowing glances of the other players.

He pushed past the others and didn't look back.

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