mad - Story 87826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the code on the screen, his fingers twitching with a need to rewrite, to rewrite, to obliterate. Months of painstaking work. He knew the algorithm inside and out. Then, there it was, the exact logic, the same flaws, the same genius, staring back at him. He felt as though someone had stolen his breath.

A wave of dizziness washed over him. He slammed the laptop shut with a loud, cracking sound. The silence that followed was almost unbearable.

He felt the tremors begin in his fingertips.

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