"This can't be happening," muttered Emily, as she stared at the flight status. Her wedding was today. Her own wedding. This felt like a cruel joke.

She'd spent months planning the perfect day, meticulously choosing every detail. And now? Now, she was trapped in an airport, feeling a wave of disbelief wash over her.

She looked around at the other passengers, the indifferent faces, their lives seemingly unaffected by the crisis. A wave of bitterness washed over her. She would miss the ceremony. Her heart ached with a dull, hollow throb. She slumped down, defeated, her carefully constructed dreams crumbling before her eyes.

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:
C0.430
🤬0.350
aggravated0.343
0.340
0.331
Suppressed:
H-0.292
soon-0.289
☺️-0.289
optimistic-0.258
latter-0.253