mad - Story 87712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain hammered against the windowpane, mirroring the tempest brewing inside Marcus. He reread the notice, the stark black ink mocking him. Eviction. For what? Late on rent *once*?

His chest felt tight, constricted. He kicked a discarded pizza box across the floor, the cardboard crumpling under the force. The cheap furniture seemed to shrink and huddle in the sudden gloom.

“Unbelievable,” he muttered, his voice thick with suppressed fury. He snatched his phone, jabbing at the numbers for his landlord, then slamming the device against the counter. A cold wave washed over him. He was losing control.

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