mad - Story 87897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The numbers swam before his eyes, mocking him. A B-. He bit down on his lip, tasting the metallic tang of blood. He knew he'd done better. He'd prepared, he'd studied. He felt a fire ignite within him, a burning resentment that threatened to consume him. He wanted to shout, to argue, to make the professor understand. He slammed his fist on the desk, the impact reverberating through his arm.

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