“Just a quick chat with my mom,” he’d said, voice smooth and unconvincing. Eleanor had caught him. She had been at the end of the hallway, a fly on the wall, and now he was suddenly in front of her. His deceitful smile was enough to bring a chill to her bones.

Eleanor's hands felt heavy, useless. Everything felt heavy, the air, the silence, her heart. She couldn’t stand the way he was looking at her, his facade a thin shield. She turned and walked away.

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:
C0.430
🤬0.350
aggravated0.343
0.340
0.331
Suppressed:
H-0.292
soon-0.289
☺️-0.289
optimistic-0.258
latter-0.253