mad - Story 87890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He went outside. The air felt heavy. The sight of his neighbor, Ms. Hawthorne, effortlessly watering her immaculately landscaped garden fueled the fire in his gut.

He dug his nails into his palms. The sheer unfairness of it all threatened to overwhelm him. He'd just been denied a raise. He felt the familiar ache in his chest.

He took a step towards her garden, then stopped. He clenched his jaw, turned, and went back inside, the slam of the door echoing in the quiet street.

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