mad - Story 87947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the living room seemed to mock her. The novel, filled with hurtful details, sat on the coffee table. She felt a knot in her stomach that refused to loosen. This wasn't love. It was a calculated performance.

She grabbed the remote and turned up the television until the sound was nearly unbearable. Then she paced the room, her thoughts a whirlwind of confusion and hurt. His casual words and sweet gestures now felt like weapons.

She slammed her fist against the wall, leaving a dent. The pain was welcome, a tangible distraction from the inner turmoil.

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