irate - Story 77166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Excuse me," she spat, pushing past someone to get a better view. The silk of her dress felt suddenly constricting, making her want to tear it off her body. She had to get to him.

This was a bad joke. The bride's choice in seating arrangements had put her in the same vicinity as Kevin. And here he was, all smiles, making small talk with a person who she didn't know. He hadn't changed at all. The very sight of him brought a clenching in her stomach.

The gentle piano music of the ceremony, now ended, was playing softly in her ear. She turned away and marched to the open doors of the room. A chill breeze greeted her.

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