mad - Story 87789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scrolled through the pictures, each one a fresh stab. The perfectly manicured lawn, the bright new paint, the pristine interiors - it was all a lie, a carefully constructed illusion that erased everything that was once real. He felt a shudder run through him, a physical manifestation of the storm raging within.

He slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the quiet room. He felt the urge to destroy something, anything, just to feel something other than the crushing weight of his emotions. He grabbed his keys and stomped out of the apartment, the door slamming shut behind 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