irate - Story 77184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheap, plastic phone pressed to his ear felt flimsy under her grip. Liam had stormed into the garage, following the muffled sounds of his wife’s hushed conversation. He grabbed the phone. His fist curled around it. What was she *saying* to whoever was on the other end?

He stared at the number, memorizing it. A wave of heat flushed his face. He’d dismantle the entire car, piece by piece, if that’s what it took to get some answers. The phone thudded to the concrete floor as he took off.

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