mad - Story 87594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The telephone receiver felt slick with sweat in Clara’s grasp. Another rejection, this time from the one publisher that she'd truly, deeply wanted. She slammed the phone down. The sharp clang echoed in the quiet room. Her breath hitched. Her vision swam, the ornate wallpaper of her study seemed to spin. She wanted to scream, to rip something, anything. Instead, she pushed back her chair so hard it crashed into the wall, a hollow thud.

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