mad - Story 87655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiter had just spilled red wine all over her crisp white dress. It was a disaster. The restaurant was packed, everyone was staring, and this was her favorite dress. She felt her face burn with embarrassment.

"Excuse me," she spat at the waiter, her voice tight. She needed to vent. She'd been about to send a complimentary message to her friend regarding her new dress. But her finger had slipped. The intended recipient was the manager.

A cold wave washed over her as she read the message. The accidental text was full of her utter frustration and displeasure. She could imagine him reading it, his face contorting with offense. She wanted to scream.

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