mad - Story 87929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neurologist had droned on, a string of medical jargon, and now, here it was. The same condition. Ethan felt a pressure building behind his eyes. He imagined the doctor's face, the condescending sympathy. It was all a blur.

He wanted to rip up the medical chart, the diagnosis, the entire charade. He wanted to break something, anything. He stood suddenly, knocking over the chair. The doctor’s eyes narrowed, but Ethan ignored him.

He was done listening, done pretending. He stormed out of the room, hearing the doctor call after him, his voice muffled by the closing door. He wanted to run, to disappear.

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