irate - Story 77138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a rage simmering within him, a heat that threatened to consume him. Michael walked the length of the classroom, his fingers flexing and unflexing. The accusations, the implication of intellectual dishonesty, was an affront to everything he stood for.

He balled his hands into fists, wanting to strike out. He’d toiled, researched, and poured his heart and soul into that paper. It was a reflection of his own intellect, and now they were trying to steal his credit.

He abruptly turned on his heel, his face contorted in a grimace. He needed to get out, to be alone, to think. He needed to find a way to make them understand.

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