He slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent apartment. His teeth ground together so hard his jaw ached. Leo imagined himself striding over to his neighbor's apartment, the one he’d spent hours online with – “Shadow_Hunter77” – and… well, he wasn’t sure *what* he’d do, but it wouldn't be pleasant.

The thought of all those hours spent revealing his deepest anxieties, his hopes, his stupid dreams… to *her*? Someone he had possibly passed in the supermarket only hours ago? It was enraging. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temples.

He paced the length of the living room, kicking at the stray socks that littered the floor. This was ridiculous. He had to calm down. But the thought of her online persona, the mysterious allure, the shared vulnerability… and then the reality… it just made his blood boil.

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