mad - Story 87730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, his face a mask. He couldn't believe his father. The carefully chosen words, filled with a quiet dignity, could not hide the truth: his father had been pushed. He’d been forced out, and the man had just never said anything.

A knot formed in his stomach. He remembered all the family dinners, all the holiday gatherings. All the times his father had smiled and acted as if everything were fine. All the missed chances to talk, to share, to build a deeper connection.

He crumpled the letter in his hand, his knuckles white. He stood up, knocking the chair over in his haste. He took a deep, shuddering breath. He wanted to go out. To drive. To disappear. He needed to think. He needed to *understand*.

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