mad - Story 87933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just great," she muttered, the words barely audible as she kicked the front door shut with unnecessary force. The peonies, a vibrant pink, seemed to leer at her from the entryway table. Another silent offering.

She yanked off her coat, the action rough and dismissive. The silk lining caught and tore. She didn't care.

The air in the apartment felt thick, heavy with unspoken accusations. She stomped into the living room, her vision blurring at the edges. She felt an overwhelming impulse to demolish every perfectly placed object in the room.

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