mad - Story 87758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and the caller ID showed *her* name. He let it ring. And ring. And ring. Finally, the automated message kicked in. A sigh of relief escaped his lips. He'd been expecting this.

He sat back down, drumming his fingers on the table. The silence of the apartment was broken only by the rhythmic tapping. He stared at his hands, then at the empty coffee cup.

He stood up, grabbed his jacket, and headed out the door, the urgency of his pace a clear indication of his mood.

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