mad - Story 87680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," she spat, tossing the email onto the already cluttered desk. Her fingers were trembling. She felt a tight band around her chest, making it hard to breathe. The world seemed to tilt slightly, the familiar walls of her office closing in. She grabbed the first thing she could find - a thick textbook - and hurled it across the room. The thud was loud, yet somehow unsatisfying.

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