irate - Story 77093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug rattled against the countertop as Amelia poured her third cup of coffee. The early morning sun, usually a welcome sight, felt like an interrogation light, exposing every dust bunny and faded stain in the kitchen. Her mother, humming a cheerful tune, bustled around, tidying the already spotless counters. Amelia felt a tightening in her chest. "Mom, I can do the dishes," she offered, her voice tight. Her mother waved her hand dismissively. "Nonsense, dear. You relax." Relax? How could she relax when her entire life felt like an extended period of imposed idleness?

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