irate - Story 77108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing in Carol's ears was almost deafening. She watched as the new girl, Jessica, sat down at her desk, the desk Carol had meticulously organized, the desk she had come to think of as an extension of herself. Jessica was so chipper. It was infuriating.

Carol’s nails dug into her palms.

“Right. Let’s start with the spreadsheet,” Carol said, her voice thin and reedy.

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