mad - Story 87556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, a snake, then?" Mark asked, his voice icy. He stared at the newly purchased terrarium, the glass reflecting his own furious expression.

He felt a burning sensation in his chest, a rising tide of… something. He clenched his fists, attempting to contain it.

His roommate, Kevin, was beaming, oblivious to the storm brewing within Mark.

He grabbed his jacket, the leather creaking under his tight grip, and stormed out, slamming the door so hard the pictures on the wall rattled.

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