mad - Story 87719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was blinding. Robert squinted at the paper in his hand, the bright light intensifying the dark mood that had consumed him. It felt like being trapped in a pressure cooker.

He crumpled the notice, tossing it in the trash. The plastic liner of the can seemed to shrink away from the rage emanating from him. He wanted to tear something down, to burn something to ashes.

He walked to the street corner, pacing. Each step was a measured calculation. The world was beginning to feel hostile.

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