irate - Story 77124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gate attendant's voice, as she announced yet another postponement, sounded like nails on a chalkboard to Amelia. She gripped the strap of her handbag, her knuckles white. Her grandmother’s 90th birthday party was today. A once-in-a-lifetime celebration.

She wanted to scream. Her grandmother was her world. All the other family would be there. They’d be taking photos. They’d be laughing. She’d be missing it.

She glared at the other passengers, the oblivious smiles that seemed to taunt her. A wave of intense frustration washed over her. She knew she was being unreasonable, but she couldn’t help it. She needed to be there. Her grandmother deserved her there.

She picked up her phone to text her cousin, knowing her words would likely sound harsh and uncaring. It didn’t matter. She had to.

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