irate - Story 77182 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d claimed it was a work call, but Liam could see the way her hand had flown up to cover the phone’s screen. A cheap excuse, and she knew it. Liam ran a hand through his hair, pacing in their small living room. The air felt thick, charged with some unspoken accusation. His chest tightened.

He imagined the call, the other person on the line, the intimate whispers. The thought sparked a volatile anger within him. He grabbed his keys, yanking open the front door with a force that made the house shake. He needed air, needed to be anywhere but here.

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