mad - Story 87966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Get a tattoo,” the list taunted, written in her flamboyant script. He’d always hated tattoos. Mark crumpled it in his palm. His hands were shaking. He could feel the blood rushing to his face.

The room seemed to shrink. He sank into a chair, the flimsy wood groaning under his weight. He’d sacrificed so much for her, his dreams put on hold, and now this.

His gaze fell on the wedding ring on his finger, a silver band that suddenly felt heavy and constricting.

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