irate - Story 77087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived on a Tuesday, nestled between a coupon for pizza and a flyer for a dental check-up. The sheer *impertinence* of it.

Margaret's hands trembled as she read it, her fingers tracing the words on the cheap, flimsy paper. A fence. Of all the… She couldn't even finish the thought.

Her usually calm features twisted into a mask of pure exasperation.

She tossed the letter onto the table, the small piece of paper landing with a sharp slap. The air in the room seemed suddenly heavy, suffocating.

She stood up and paced, her steps quick and erratic, a furious energy coursing through her. She felt like tearing something.

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