mad - Story 87938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The roses were deep, a terrifying burgundy. Her heart pounded in her chest. She had to take deep breaths to steady herself. The anonymity. The insult.

"Who do they think they are?" she said to no one. Her voice was brittle and barely above a whisper.

She began ripping the flowers apart, petal by petal, a savage destruction. Her hands trembled, her knuckles white. She wanted to hurt something, to make someone pay for this.

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