irate - Story 77086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could feel his pulse throbbing in his temples. This was unbelievable. Just absolutely unbelievable.

It wasn't just a fence; it was a physical manifestation of everything wrong with the world. He just knew it.

He watched the workers on the other side of the property line, their orange vests like glaring accusations. Each hammer blow was a stab in his gut.

He wanted to scream.

He clenched his fists so hard his nails dug into his palms. He felt the familiar knot forming in his throat.

He retreated inside, shutting the curtains to block out the offensive sunlight.

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