mad - Story 87983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of it made his jaw clench so tight he could feel the muscles strain. He slammed the newspaper onto the counter, the headline, BIG CHANGES COMING, mocking him. He’d just finished a long shift and was looking forward to a quiet evening. Instead, he got this.

His gaze flicked around the familiar kitchen, the chipped countertop, the mismatched chairs. Everything felt…threatened. He gripped the edge of the counter, knuckles white. The image of the demolition crew, bulldozing his life, filled his head.

"Ugh," he growled. He grabbed a beer from the fridge, the cold glass a small comfort. He twisted the cap off with a savage twist, then took a long swig. He would find a way to fight this. He had to.

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