mad - Story 87994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From behind the counter, Mateo could see the smiling faces in the local book shop, reading the glossy, open magazine with his essay on display. He felt his face flush with heat. His palms began to sweat. How dare they?

He slammed the cash register drawer shut with more force than necessary. The sudden noise startled a customer, who jumped. Mateo offered a curt apology, his voice tight. He couldn’t stand to look at it, the pages plastered in the front window.

He turned away from the glass. He felt pinned, trapped, as if something were slowly constricting his lungs. He needed to be away from the shop, away from the prying eyes, away from *that.*

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