mad - Story 87578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood was roaring in his ears. He gripped the steering wheel, knuckles white. The old familiar house loomed before him, but something was terribly, terribly wrong. The face that answered the door wasn't the face he knew.

“I’m sorry, there must be a mistake,” the man had said, his voice flat, devoid of any warmth. "I'm the only person who lives here." He shut the door.

He felt the urge to kick something, to break something, to scream until his voice was raw. The meticulously kept lawn, the freshly painted porch – it all felt like a deliberate insult. He was not there.

He put the car in reverse, tires spitting gravel. He floored the gas pedal and roared away, the house disappearing in the rearview mirror.

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