mad - Story 87553 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ink on the application form blurred as David’s pen pressed down hard. He ripped the paper from the clipboard with a violent motion. Across the table, Sarah smiled, oblivious. He crumpled the paper into a tight ball.

"A hamster?" he asked, his voice dangerously low. "In this apartment? Are you kidding me?"

His stomach churned, a knot of unease twisting tighter with each passing moment. He wanted to shout, to scream, to lash out. He pushed his chair back, the legs scraping loudly against the wooden floor.

He needed air, space, a way to escape this suffocating feeling.

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