mad - Story 87918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a fury that mirrored the static electricity building in Amelia's chest. "I'm sorry, Mr. Finch," she said, her voice dangerously calm, "that is simply not going to happen." The tree was a sanctuary.

He stood there, unblinking, his pleasant demeanor grating on her already taut nerves. His words were like little jabs, each one making her more enraged. Her hands twitched at her sides, itching to grab something, to inflict some kind of damage.

She took a deep, ragged breath. Her vision seemed to narrow, focusing solely on the offending man. Her gaze could burn. She had to remain composed. She wanted to yell and curse and scream. The urge to physically hurt him was strong.

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