mad - Story 87865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the school hallway felt oppressive to Mr. Harrison. The final bell had rung, and the echoes of rowdy students were receding. Another day of dealing with ungrateful kids and demanding parents. He felt himself pacing.

A brown paper bag sat on his desk. He frowned. Who would leave something for him? He picked it up. The bag held a collection of home-baked cookies. A note attached read: "Thank you, Mr. Harrison. You were the only teacher who saw me." The name wasn’t familiar.

He threw the cookies into the wastebasket. He felt a throbbing in his temples. Was this some kind of sick joke?

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