mad - Story 87937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bouquet of sunflowers seemed to be mocking him. Their bright, cheerful faces taunted him with a happiness he did not possess. He couldn't shake the sensation of being utterly dismissed.

He kicked at the coffee table, the wood groaning in protest. He paced the length of the room, his movements erratic and jerky.

He felt the familiar knot of tension forming in his shoulders. The absence of a message was an open invitation to torment, and he found himself gripped by an intense craving for retribution.

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