mad - Story 87668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air grew thick with a suffocating tension. He gripped his briefcase, his knuckles white. The thought of being delayed, of everything falling apart, sent a wave of nausea through him. He looked at the other person trapped with him, his coworker, and found no solace.

He kept glancing at his watch, each passing minute a fresh stab of aggravation. He didn't even care who was there. He just wanted to leave this metal coffin and be done with it. He needed to be *moving*.

He started pacing, a restless tiger in a cage. Each step was a measured expression of his growing ire. He couldn't keep still. He couldn't relax. He had to be out of there.

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