mad - Story 87672 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you KIDDING me?!" Liam roared, his voice cracking. He ripped the notification from the bulletin board, crumpling the paper in his fist. He glared at the offending announcement, the words – "Dr. Chen's Retirement" – blurring before his eyes. His jaw clenched, muscles bunching so tight he could practically taste the bitterness in his saliva. He flung the crumpled paper into a nearby trash can with unnecessary force, the sound a satisfying *thwack* against the metal.

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