irate - Story 77100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at a loose stone on the sidewalk, sending it skittering across the concrete. His father’s words echoed in his head, a litany of unsolicited advice. "You need to pull yourself together," he'd said earlier, his voice laced with disappointment. He needed to get away, to clear his head, but his car was at the shop. The weight of his failures, of his dependence, pressed down on him, turning the crisp autumn air heavy and difficult to breathe. He wanted to vanish.

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