mad - Story 87557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant scratching noise from behind the door was driving him crazy. Leo put his hands over his ears, but he could still hear it. He could *feel* it. The incessant, frustrating sound.

He finally yanked open the door.

“He is not going to live in my room,” he said, his voice flat.

His roommate, John, stepped back, looking surprised. Leo felt a thrill of victory.

He needed to get away, to be alone, to stop the thrum of that persistent irritation. He left John standing there.

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