irate - Story 77110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a cold sweat prickling his skin. Robert watched, dispassionately, as the new guy, a fresh graduate named Alex, sat in his chair. The chair he'd sat in for the last ten years, the chair that had become his domain. Alex was talking excitedly, describing his previous internships and projects. Robert listened, barely hearing the words, as a feeling of emptiness gnawed at him.

He cleared his throat. "Okay," he said, his voice flat and devoid of emotion. "Let's begin."

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