irate - Story 77028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled around Henry. He felt the familiar weight in his chest. His nephew, Ethan, had just shown him his newest picture: a creature composed of mismatched puzzle pieces. It looked exactly like the “Puzzle Man” he had invented in his childhood. He had made a pact with himself to forget that creature. Now, it was back.

He forced a tight smile and complimented the drawing, the words feeling foreign and detached.

He retreated to the safety of his study. He locked the door and paced, his hands clenched into fists.

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