David slammed the laptop shut with a loud, decisive snap. The sound reverberated through the quiet apartment. He felt a wave of icy cold wash over him, followed by a surge of heat that made his face flush. Liam. Again. He let out a low, frustrated groan.

He stood and walked to the window, staring out at the rain-swept street below, the bleakness of the weather mirroring his mood. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes.

He had worked tirelessly, he'd poured his heart and soul into the application. Now, this. He clenched his fists, the muscles in his forearms bunching, the image of Liam's smug face burned into his memory.

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