mad - Story 87764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," she muttered under her breath, her voice tight. The trunk of the old pine, once a haven for climbing, was now a jagged, brutal reminder. She circled the stump, her hands clasing and unclasped.

A sudden, sharp pain flared in her chest. It was a physical ache, a response to the violated landscape. She'd always imagined the tree would be there, a steadfast presence. A landmark. Now, it was… nothing.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to smash something. She wanted to… She clamped down on the impulse, forcing herself to breathe. This was about more than a tree. This felt personal.

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