mad - Story 87528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information slammed into her like a tidal wave. Olivia, a dedicated fan of the author Theron Vance, had discovered that his work heavily borrowed from her own writing. Her world inverted. The admiration she had for Vance transformed into a bitter, acrid taste.

She leaned against the kitchen counter, the cold surface a welcome sensation against her skin. She felt a tremor run through her body, a mixture of disbelief and utter frustration. It took all of her effort to prevent herself from breaking down.

Olivia clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms. She needed to do something, anything to quell the chaotic thoughts swirling inside her head.

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