mad - Story 87588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The commercial. He saw it on the television screen. His song, used to sell toothpaste. The absurdity of it was almost unbearable. His chest was tight.

He wanted to scream at the television, but the words caught in his throat. His entire body felt tense, like a coiled spring.

He kicked the coffee table, the wood splintering. He needed something, anything, to break the awful, monotonous repetition. He turned the TV off. The silence was almost worse.

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