mad - Story 87845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the lid of the toolbox shut, the metal echoing loudly in the garage. His breath came in ragged gasps, his chest heaving. The rhythmic, insistent hammering from next door had driven him to the brink.

He paced back and forth, fists balled, feeling a pressure building behind his eyes. He wished he could just make the noise stop, silence it permanently.

After a moment of furious internal debate, he kicked the tire of his car, the act a release of pent-up aggression. He would talk to the guy. This had to stop.

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