mad - Story 87698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory mood in the office grated on his nerves. He watched the others laughing, congratulating. The sound of their joy was a shrill noise, scraping against his ears.

He couldn't meet anyone's eye. His face felt hot, his skin prickling with irritation. He felt like he was burning up. He couldn't stay here, not another minute.

He abruptly walked out, not saying goodbye, just needed to get away from it all. He didn't care where, just somewhere, anywhere, away from the scene of his defeat.

He kept his head down, shoving his hands in his pockets. He felt as though he was being watched, judged. He needed to be alone.

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