irate - Story 77027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the drawing felt mocking. Lila stared at the image of “Mr. Snuggles,” a fluffy, blue thing with button eyes and a perpetual smile. His niece, Maya, was excitedly chattering about Mr. Snuggles' adventures. Lila's face was flushed. It was ridiculous. How was this possible?

She’d thought she’d buried Mr. Snuggles decades ago. This small child was bringing it all back, dredging up memories she wanted to be in the past.

Lila excused herself, suddenly overwhelmed. She needed to go for a walk. She needed air. Now.

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