mad - Story 87691 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email landed with a thud in Amelia's inbox, the subject line a brutal slap in the face: "Promotion Announcement." She stared at it, her jaw clenching. Every muscle in her neck tightened, a vise squeezing the life out of her.

Her knuckles were white as she gripped the mouse, scrolling through the message. *Not him.* The words screamed in her brain. All the late nights, the extra projects, the unwavering dedication… what had it all been for?

A strangled sound escaped her. She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing through the otherwise silent office. She needed air. Now.

The fluorescent lights of the hallway seemed to flicker, taunting her. She shoved past anyone in her way, practically running to the fire escape. The cool autumn air did little to soothe the fire that was consuming her from the inside out.

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