irate - Story 77133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in her inbox, a digital serpent coiled and ready to strike. "Academic dishonesty," the subject line read, its words like venom dripping onto the screen. Amelia slumped back in her chair, the air seeming to thin around her.

Her cheeks felt flushed, her palms clammy. This was ridiculous. The painstaking hours she'd spent researching, writing, agonizing over every word—all dismissed in a single, dismissive sentence.

She clenched her fists, nails digging into her palms. The injustice was overwhelming. She’d always strived for excellence, always put in the work. How could they accuse her of something so base?

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