irate - Story 77050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog started barking, a high-pitched yelp that mirrored the rising tide of anger in Robert's chest. He slammed his fist on the table, the force of the blow jarring him. He shot a glare toward the fence. "Enough!" he bellowed, his voice raw with feeling.

He knew this was going to happen. He had heard about the neighbor's plans. But he had not expected the sheer, brutal volume of the renovation. It was an assault on his quiet life.

He grabbed his keys and stormed toward the door, every intention of voicing his displeasure. There was no way he would stand for this.

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