irate - Story 77117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news reporter, her voice smooth and condescending, finished the interview with a flourish. "Well, Ms. Chen, it seems your extensive experience as a forward is no longer required. We're moving you to the back." The bright studio lights seemed to intensify the heat that flooded her face. Her hands shook, she felt a burning sensation in her stomach.

She swallowed hard, her throat tight. All those years, her dedication, her training…reduced to nothing? She fought to keep her voice steady. "With all due respect, I'm…" She paused, struggling for composure. She hated this.

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