mad - Story 87616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his hands as he waited his turn to speak. They had been shaking all evening. The weight of expectations, the years of unspoken grievances, had settled in his gut like a lead ball. The joy and gratitude being expressed felt… foreign.

He’d arrived early, wanting to get it over with, but found himself pacing the perimeter of the room, acutely aware of the fake cheer. The air was thick with it.

Finally, the master of ceremonies announced his name, and he walked to the podium. His steps felt heavy, his gaze locked to the floor.

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