mad - Story 87518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with suppressed energy as David stalked toward the exit. He felt an intense, burning desire to destroy the trophy case, filled with symbols of glory he'd never achieve. The congratulatory pats on the back from his teammates felt like slaps in the face.

He didn't bother to say goodbye to Coach Evans. He knew what the coach would say: “It’s not personal.” He knew it was personal.

His throat constricted. His muscles tightened. He could barely breathe. He wanted to shatter something, to feel the physical release of the explosion that threatened to erupt within him.

He slammed the door behind him, the sound echoing through the empty hallway.

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