irate - Story 77123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport felt like a pressure cooker. The air, thick with recycled oxygen and the stale scent of disinfectant, seemed to press down on him. John checked his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. The board displayed the dreaded words: "Delayed." The urgent summit meeting was everything.

He ripped his tie loose, the knot suddenly feeling too tight. He balled up the fabric in his hand. He’d poured his heart and soul into this presentation. The promotion, the recognition, the chance to finally get a step ahead…it was all at stake. He imagined the faces of his colleagues, their disappointment, the missed opportunity.

He needed to be there. He needed to be *in control*. He felt a cold sweat prickling his skin. He stormed to the counter and confronted the customer service agent, his voice rising with each frustrated word.

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