mad - Story 87549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the house was deafening, the quiet punctuated only by the frantic beat of her own heart. The discovery felt like a physical blow, leaving her breathless and reeling.

She found it by accident, the secret account, the carefully crafted image of her son, Alex. The person who posted there didn't seem to resemble the kind, introverted boy she knew.

She slammed her fist on the table, the force rattling the dishes. She felt a burning sensation in her throat, a need to scream, to lash out. Her chest felt like it was about to explode.

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