irate - Story 77178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the bakery felt thick and cloying. He was waiting for Charles, the “food critic” friend, to arrive for their weekly catch-up. He wanted to smash the glass pastry counter, a desire that burned in his stomach. Today, he’d seen Charles, his face plastered with a false grin, on a cooking show. The show was called "Amateur Bakers."

His palms were sweating. Charles arrived, beaming, and launched into a detailed account of the "revolutionary new flavors" he had discovered.

"That's wonderful, Charles," he said, his voice flat, devoid of any inflection.

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