irate - Story 77187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes in the sink was deafening in the suddenly tense apartment. He’d snuck away, again. This time he did not even try to hide the phone call. She noticed his hurried pace. She heard the low tones, the intimate murmurs. Her insides twisted. A coldness spread through her.

She picked up a plate, flinging it into the sink with a violence she didn’t know she possessed. The ceramic shattered. Pieces of the plate scattered.

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