mad - Story 87980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a cold wave of annoyance wash over him. The woman’s words hung in the air, a blatant disregard for his efforts. The calm, composed exterior he usually presented crumbled. He felt a sharp, stinging sensation behind his eyes.

He imagined the chaos, the untidiness, the disregard for aesthetics. The meticulously planned layout of his garden, his pride and joy, at risk of being spoiled. His jaw clenched, and he felt his teeth grind together. He wanted to shout, to make his displeasure known.

He forced a smile, but his voice came out strained and tight. He would handle this, he told himself. But the anger, a simmering heat, lingered just below the surface.

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