mad - Story 87669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She wanted to break something. She wanted to scream. She ground her teeth so hard that her jaw ached. The thought of being stuck here, missing the concert she’d waited months for, was unbearable.

She glared at the floor, digging her heels into the carpet. The silence was deafening, broken only by the frantic thumping of her own heart. The guy with her, who had been trying to start a conversation, had quickly gone quiet.

"I need air," she croaked, the words barely a whisper. She wanted to rip the doors off their hinges, to escape this prison. The injustice of this situation ignited a fire in her belly.

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