mad - Story 87895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The injustice of it all pulsed through her veins, a relentless thrum. Her hands shook as she scrolled through the professor's feedback online. Each criticism felt like a personal attack, a deliberate attempt to undermine her confidence. She slammed her laptop shut, the screen flashing black, and threw herself onto the bed, burying her face in the pillows. The urge to break something simmered just beneath the surface, a dangerous heat.

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