mad - Story 87958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old wooden chest sat in the middle of the empty lot, exposed. Liam, the person who had dug it up, paced back and forth, the gravel crunching beneath his feet. The label, a crudely drawn skull with the words "Don't Open!" was a direct insult, as far as he was concerned.

He kicked the chest, the wood groaning in protest. He pried open the lid. Inside, lay a collection of his favourite books. His stomach turned. He’d never been a reader. There was also a single, tarnished silver ring. A wave of a feeling he couldn't grasp washed over him.

He slammed the lid. He marched away, away from the box, away from this constant, nagging… what?

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