mad - Story 87620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confetti rained down, a mockery of celebration. Emily stood in the corner, her arms crossed, watching the scene unfold. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a heat that spread through her veins. The forced happiness of the event made her feel sick.

She'd spent weeks helping plan this, and the resentment had grown with each detail. She wanted to demolish the entire scene.

She moved towards the microphone, her steps deliberate and slow. “Well,” she started, her voice tight, “I have to say…”

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