irate - Story 77077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, independent bookstore felt suddenly stifling. Sarah felt trapped. She had been admiring the poetry section when she saw *them*. Her online friend, “Poetess_Moon,” the person who had encouraged her to pursue her own writing, browsing next to her.

She felt her pulse quicken. The woman was fiddling with her hair. Smiling! With *her*! She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was such a strange coincidence that it felt like an insult.

All the advice, the compliments, the affirmations… had all of it been insincere? She desperately wanted to get out. To escape. But her feet felt glued to the floor.

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