mad - Story 87709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The traffic was a nightmare. He was late, of course. Again. He could feel his shoulders tense, his jaw tighten. He was already dreading the look on his boss's face.

As he finally reached the office, he spotted Liam, one of his coworkers. Liam started to laugh.

"What is so funny?" he asked.

"You," he said. "Remember Camp Meadowbrook? You always were a slow driver."

He wanted to hit something.

"You'd make sure you followed all the rules, and you were always so…"

"Don't," he interrupted. "Just…don't."

Liam just smiled, and that made it worse.

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