mad - Story 87870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise of the cafeteria, the incessant chatter, the clatter of trays—it all grated on Ms. Garcia's nerves. She retreated to her classroom, seeking refuge from the chaos. Another day of trying to maintain order, a losing battle. She wanted to scream.

She saw a small, handmade card lying on her desk. It was from Mateo, the quietest kid in class. He never spoke much. She took the card and tore it to shreds. She felt the pressure building in her head.

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