mad - Story 87564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, almost childish, font of the flyer mocked Ethan. "Big Birthday Blowout! Free food, live band!" It was pinned on the bulletin board in the common room, directly across from the flyer he'd spent hours designing, a simple invitation for a cozy board game night.

Ethan felt a surge of… something. His shoulders tensed. He imagined the scene: all his friends, abandoning his quiet gathering for the flash and spectacle of his rival's celebration.

He ripped the flyer from the board, crumpling it into a tight ball. The action didn't provide any satisfaction. He threw it into the nearby trash, but the image of his forgotten game night wouldn't disappear.

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