mad - Story 87800 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d found the newspaper clipping hidden in the attic. A brief, cold report of a violent death in his house. The realtor, of course, had neglected to mention this detail. He felt a surge of adrenaline, his heart pounding in his chest.

He stormed through the house, his pace quick, his movements jerky. He opened every cupboard, every drawer, as if searching for something to vent his feelings on. He grabbed a ceramic plate from the kitchen and smashed it against the counter.

He needed to escape, to be away from the place that now felt like a prison. He threw his car keys on the counter. He would find a lawyer, and he would make someone pay.

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