"This is absurd!" James slammed his hand on the desk, startling his roommate. The papers scattered, a chaotic reflection of his internal turmoil. He felt a fire in his belly, a need to explode.

He’d put everything into that project. He’d sacrificed sleep, social life, everything. And for what? To be branded a cheat? It was a slap in the face. A betrayal of his dedication.

He glared at the offending document, a cold fury rising within him. He was a good student. He worked hard. This travesty would not stand.

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