mad - Story 87779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I pushed the unopened envelope across the table, away from the lawyer, away from my sister, Seraphina. My heart hammered against my ribs. I had been anticipating this moment for months, ever since my father's passing. I expected the family home.

I’d inherited a dilapidated cabin in the woods. My sister, the lawyer herself, inherited the family funds.

I felt a surge of heat rush through me, a burning sensation that made my skin prickle. I wanted to tear it up, to throw the pieces in the air, to… I didn't even know what I wanted.

The lawyer, unfazed, simply pushed the envelope back. I felt a tremor run through my body.

I closed my eyes, fighting to remain calm. I felt a pressure building behind my eyes, as though my head was about to explode.

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