mad - Story 87986 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is a joke, right?” He pointed at the notice with a trembling finger. The leasing agent, a young woman with a practiced smile, remained unfazed. “No, sir. It’s official.” Her words were like a physical barrier, deflecting his rage.

His chest was constricting. The familiar scent of lemon cleaner in the office felt nauseating. He leaned forward, knuckles on the desk. He wanted to shout, to break something.

“You’re telling me,” he said, his voice a low growl, "that I have to move?" He clenched his jaw, the muscles working. The smile on the leasing agent’s face remained, maddeningly smooth.

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