He stared at the blank wall of his room. The letter lay unopened on his desk. He knew what it said. He just *knew*. Years of dedication, all those late nights at the library, the sacrifices... for nothing. A tremor ran through his body. He felt a deep, profound sense of injustice.

He picked up a pen and snapped it in half, the sharp crack echoing in the quiet room. He kicked the chair over, the sound sharp and jarring. The air felt thick, heavy with his unspoken rage. He wanted to tear something apart.

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