mad - Story 87850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed his keys, his movements abrupt and quick. The incessant drumming of the neighbor’s band had finally pushed him over the edge. He could feel a pressure building in his head, a dull ache throbbing behind his eyes.

He didn't bother to put on a coat. He slammed the door behind him, the force of the impact sending a tremor through the house. He stormed across the lawn, his boots crunching on the gravel path.

He didn't know what he would do when he got there. He just knew he had to *do* something.

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