mad - Story 87663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny space felt like a pressure cooker. Every creak and groan of the elevator amplified the rage bubbling inside of her. She balled her fists so tightly her nails drew crescent moons on her palms. The sheer indignity of it, of being stuck here!

"Anything?" David asked, his voice wavering slightly. She just glared at him, the flicker of a mocking smile on her lips. He'd been late to the meeting that sealed her promotion. Now he was here, looking at her with those big, innocent eyes.

She wanted to tear the buttons off his shirt. She imagined all the things she would say when she got out. She wished the lights would go out so she could properly unleash everything that was within her. He wouldn't get away with it again.

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