mad - Story 87546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The remote control slipped from Mark's grasp, clattering to the floor. He stared at the screen, the vibrant colors blurring before his eyes. It wasn't the content, per se, that was so upsetting, but the fact that he was utterly excluded from this entire world.

His son, Ethan, had a hidden life, a whole other sphere of friends and interactions. Friends who seemed to understand him better than he did. Interactions that he hadn't known about.

He balled his hands into fists. He felt a burning sensation behind his eyes, a familiar prickling. He wanted to scream.

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