irate - Story 77099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror, the lines around her eyes looking more pronounced than usual. Her mother's constant comments about her appearance, her weight, and the fact that she was still single were getting under her skin. She grabbed a washcloth and scrubbed her face, as if she could scrub away the years, the anxiety, the suffocating presence of her family. The water ran cold, but the icy shock barely registered. She wanted to scream.

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