mad - Story 87623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world swam in a haze of red. Maya stared at the notification, her teeth grinding together. Mrs. Rodriguez, her art teacher, was now peering into her digital life. It was like she'd been invaded. Her carefully constructed online persona, which was full of bright colors and carefully chosen filters, felt cheapened.

The art room, usually a comfort, felt different. It suddenly had the weight of expectation. She could practically feel Mrs. Rodriguez’s eyes on her. On her doodles, her sketches. The canvas felt wrong. She crumpled a piece of paper in her hand, the paper crunching in protest.

Maya threw the wad of paper at the trash can, missing. A frustrated noise escaped her. She was going to transfer out of Mrs. Rodriguez’s class. That was the only option.

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