mad - Story 87786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable.” The word escaped her lips as a low growl. The house, her refuge, her sanctuary, now for sale. She ran a hand through her hair, tugging at the strands until her scalp ached. The listing was a betrayal, a violation.

She stormed into the kitchen and grabbed a box of cereal. She didn't want it, she wasn't hungry, but she grabbed a handful and crushed the flakes in her fist. The small, brittle pieces crumbled between her fingers. Her eyes burned, and she blinked rapidly, trying to clear the haze that had formed in her vision.

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