irate - Story 77103 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash. David slammed the mug down on the desk, the ceramic rattling against the cheap particleboard. The replacement, Liam, was already sitting there, grinning. He probably thought this was some kind of exciting internship. Didn't he understand what this felt like? To have everything you built, everything you knew, systematically stripped away?

David gestured with a dismissive wave. "Okay, so the client database is... here." He pointed towards the screen with a stiff finger.

He had to clench his jaw to prevent himself from saying something he'd regret.

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