irate - Story 77180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking, mocking his attempts to type. He had just seen the photograph. "CEO" Ben, the source of so much advice and, apparently, a vast personal fortune. The photograph showed Ben behind the counter of a fast-food restaurant.

A cold rage built within him, a silent pressure that made his head ache. He felt trapped.

He slammed his fist on the desk, the impact echoing through the small apartment.

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