mad - Story 87660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the broken guitar string, a physical manifestation of his failing performance. The gig had been a disaster. The crowd was sparse. He could feel the eyes of the other band members burning into him.

He composed a message to his bandmate, a tirade of blame and accusations. But he accidentally sent it to his grandmother.

He slumped onto a stool, the weight of his anger crushing him. His grandmother, the only person who always believed in him. Now she would know. Now she would worry. The music died in his throat.

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