irate - Story 77102 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A vein throbbed in Amelia's forehead. The air conditioning was failing, or maybe it was just her. The sweat was gathering at the base of her neck. He was so *young*. He wore that stupid, insincere smile that felt like a personal insult. She had to sit here, forced to share her knowledge, her shortcuts, her hard-won expertise, with this…this stranger.

"So," Amelia began, her voice tight, "the first thing you need to know about this report is..." She trailed off, unable to meet his gaze. It felt like she was handing over a piece of herself.

Her fingers were twitching. She wanted to grab the stapler and hurl it across the desk.

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