mad - Story 87667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the elevator was getting to her. It burrowed under her skin, a constant, irritating reminder of her confinement. She hated this. She hated the situation, she hated the man standing beside her, and she hated the feeling of utter helplessness.

She ran her hand through her hair, tangling her fingers in the strands. The muscles in her shoulders were tight, as if perpetually braced for something. She wanted to yell, to smash something.

"I can't believe this," she muttered, the words barely audible. The man, bless his heart, started to offer a platitude. She cut him off with a glare that could curdle milk. She wanted nothing more than to be alone with her escalating ire.

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