mad - Story 87590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The award ceremony. He sat in the audience, pretending to smile as the announcer introduced the performer. His song was up for an award, and they had chosen this...this person to sing it.

He could feel his pulse hammering in his ears. The room swam. The lights seemed to dim. He wanted to leap onto the stage, to grab the microphone, to tell the world the truth.

He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to regain control. He took a deep breath. It wasn't fair. None of it was fair. He wanted to scream.

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