Liam felt his muscles tense. He stared at the photograph on his phone, the image of his "Lost Mariner" design now adorning someone's shoulder. A sour taste coated his mouth.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The sheer nerve. The blatant disrespect. The audacity. He felt a tremor in his hands.

He paced his small apartment. The walls seemed to be closing in. He felt trapped. He needed to get away, to walk, to scream into the endless blue of the sky. He had to.

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:
C0.430
🤬0.350
aggravated0.343
0.340
0.331
Suppressed:
H-0.292
soon-0.289
☺️-0.289
optimistic-0.258
latter-0.253