mad - Story 87838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the bedroom was thick, heavy. She felt like she couldn’t breathe. His meticulous planning, his carefully constructed lies, were laid bare in the bank statement. The weight of it pressed down on her chest.

She pulled the duvet cover off the bed and threw it onto the floor, scattering the pillows and blankets. She needed action, something to break the suffocating silence.

His car pulled up outside. She could hear him singing along to the radio. She closed her eyes for a moment, steeling herself.

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