irate - Story 77069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That’s just… not right," David muttered, his voice barely a whisper. He stared at the email, his eyes narrowed. He felt a pressure building behind his forehead, a sensation that threatened to erupt. He wanted to scream.

He rose from his desk and started pacing his room, back and forth, the same path over and over. He felt a tight band around his chest. The carefully laid plans, the future he envisioned, felt like it was crumbling. The world was suddenly a cruel place.

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