irate - Story 77008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message was curt, a single photo. "Regarding your painting 'Solitude'." The words were like a slap in the face. Evelyn leaned closer to her screen, her jaw locked.

The tattoo was crude. The design itself was distorted. It was an insult to her work, to the hours she had poured into capturing the specific feeling of the piece. She felt a knot tighten in her chest.

She stood abruptly, her chair scraping against the floor. She needed to be away from this. She strode to her closet and got her coat, grabbing her keys. She had to find the source. This needed to be stopped.

Emotion: irate

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.67 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.45

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion irate. 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 irate stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the irate emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the irate vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.430
`🤬`	0.350
`aggravated`	0.343
`骂`	0.340
`恨`	0.331

Suppressed:

`H`	-0.292
`soon`	-0.289
`☺️`	-0.289
`optimistic`	-0.258
`latter`	-0.253