mad - Story 87605 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photographs were her sister's legacy, the only way she knew her. But the woman in the pictures wasn’t the stoic, serious sister she’d been told about. Sarah’s sister was laughing, running, and doing things that were so unlike the version of her Sarah had been told about.

She slammed the album closed, the sound echoing in the empty house. Sarah felt a prickling heat behind her eyes. How dare they? How dare they rewrite her history and strip her sister of her true life?

She ripped the album apart, piece by piece, until it was nothing but a pile of shredded memories. She wanted the lies to disappear.

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