The phone rang, shattering the quiet of the evening. He snatched it up, expecting a call about the job he'd applied for. "Hello?" His mother's voice on the other end, chirping about errands she needed run. A wave of frustration washed over him. He slammed the phone down, his chest burning. He’d been trying to get some writing done, and now this. Everything felt like a colossal waste of his time. He wanted to throw something, break something, anything to alleviate the pressure building inside him.

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