irate - Story 77107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun blazed through the office windows, beating down on Frank's desk. It mirrored the internal heat building within him. He was supposed to be showing this… this person, how to write the marketing briefs, the very core of his work. He wanted to tell him the intricacies, the client quirks, the shortcuts… but he couldn't.

He watched, stony-faced, as the replacement clumsily navigated the software.

Frank forced a smile. It felt like a grimace.

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