mad - Story 87990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the notice, his vision blurring. He blinked, trying to clear his head, but the words remained. He felt an intense heat rising in his neck, spreading to his face. His hands clenched.

He kicked the coffee table, a solid piece of wood that barely budged. He winced, the pain a small, insignificant thing. He needed to get out, he thought.

He ripped his keys off the hook by the door and threw open the door, slamming it behind him. The sound echoed in the hallway. He stomped down the stairs, ignoring the annoyed glances of his neighbors. He needed to be alone.

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