mad - Story 87778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a tension that threatened to ignite. He slammed the paperwork onto the polished surface of the table. His sister, Bronwyn, remained composed, a faint smile playing on her lips. It was almost more than he could bear.

He had expected to receive the family vineyard; he'd been working there since he was a child. He was left with nothing but his father's old boots. She received everything.

He felt a burning sensation in his chest, spreading like wildfire. He wanted to yell, to accuse, to unleash the fury that simmered within him.

He pushed back from the table, his chair scraping against the floor. His hands clenched into fists at his sides.

“This isn’t right,” he managed, his voice a low growl.

The room seemed to spin around him.

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