mad - Story 87917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The taste of coffee turned to acid in Robert's mouth. His neighbor's proposition had soured his entire morning. He stared at the tree from his kitchen window, its branches still bare. The tree that blocked his view.

His head throbbed. He slammed his fist on the table, the force startling him. "Absolutely not," he'd said, his voice a low growl. The nerve of the man! He poured the coffee into the sink.

The silence of his house pressed down on him. Each tick of the clock was an unwelcome intrusion, a reminder of the wasted time. He craved to destroy something. To break something. To be rid of the feeling that was gripping him. He walked over to the door and slammed it.

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