irate - Story 77017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a slap in the face. His sister, the pragmatist, the skeptic, was now a devotee. He wanted to laugh, a wild, hysterical sound that bubbled up in his chest. Instead, he felt a sharp, stabbing pain in his side. He leaned against the counter, the cool tile offering little comfort. He envisioned smashing the porcelain mugs stacked in the dish rack. "Well," he finally managed to say, his voice strained, "that's... interesting."

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