mad - Story 87552 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A vein throbbed in Chloe's temple. Her jaw clenched so hard she thought she might crack a tooth. The incessant chirp, chirp, chirp of the budgie in the new cage on the kitchen counter was enough to send her over the edge.

"I need some peace and quiet," she spat, her voice tight, a barely controlled hiss.

She grabbed the remote, her fingers fumbling, and turned the volume up on the TV to a deafening level. That should drown out the noise. That should make him *understand*.

She paced, her breaths shallow and ragged, the small apartment suddenly feeling much too small, much too suffocating.

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