mad - Story 87586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pulled off the headphones, the music cutting off abruptly. He felt as if the air had been sucked out of the room. He'd been looking for inspiration, searching for a new direction. He found instead…his own song.

He couldn't stand to hear it. The performance was a caricature of everything he valued. He was shaking. His hands felt clammy.

He wanted to rip the wires from the computer, smash the speakers, erase the file. He let out a strangled groan. All the years, the effort, and this was how it would end? The song, ruined, sullied.

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