mad - Story 87610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman in the photographs wasn’t the saintly grandmother he remembered. The woman in the photos was flamboyant, and doing things his family had never spoken of.

He tossed the album onto the table. His chest was tight, his breathing shallow. He clenched his fists, knuckles white.

He rose from the chair and began pacing, feeling a tidal wave of resentment rising within him. He wanted to scream, to tear the very fabric of the lies that had been spun. The betrayal was a bitter taste in his mouth.

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