He sat frozen, his gaze fixed on his son, who was beaming with a happiness that felt utterly foreign. The words, so casually spoken, ignited a wildfire inside him. He wanted to dismantle everything, to rip apart the world his son had seemingly embraced. He rose abruptly, his chair scraping loudly against the floor. He paced the room, each step a testament to his burgeoning fury. The air crackled with unspoken accusations and resentment. He opened his mouth, but only a strangled sound escaped.

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