mad - Story 87769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of icy shock washed over him, followed by a searing heat. His cherry tree, a sentinel of his youth, was a memory. The raw edge of the stump glared at him. He felt… violated.

His hands shook uncontrollably. He balled them into fists and slammed them against his thighs, again and again. Each strike did nothing to ease the pressure building in his head.

"They won't get away with this," he muttered, the words raspy and filled with venom. He took a step toward the trunk, his eyes burning with a desperate intensity. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe.

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