mad - Story 87989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bland wording of the notice felt like a personal insult. She read it again, her eyes scanning the carefully chosen phrases. They didn't care about her. They didn't care about anyone.

She slammed the door of her apartment and turned the lock, a decisive click. She paced the length of her tiny hallway, her arms crossed tightly. She felt like a caged animal.

She grabbed a nearby vase of dried flowers and hurled it against the wall. The dried blooms exploded, scattering everywhere. She stared at the mess, breathing heavily. What had she done?

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