mad - Story 87814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steam from the coffee cup blurred the view of the city outside the window, much like the rage swirling inside her. Every muscle in her body was taut. She could feel the prickling heat spreading across her skin. Across from her, Dr. Alex, formerly known as Alexander, sat with folded hands.

Her teeth were grinding together, a slow, deliberate gnash. She had pictured this moment a thousand times, each one ending with her unleashing a torrent of anger. Now, she was just…sitting.

Alex’s voice was the same, annoyingly placid. "And how does that make you feel, Clara?" Clara stared at the cup. She took a deep breath, and set the cup down, taking a deep breath again. She knew she had to answer.

She replied, "You really have no idea, do you, Alex?"

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