irate - Story 77188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the car was thick, unbreathable. He’d stopped at a gas station, pulled over, and then, the phone to his ear, he had started walking away. She watched the way his shoulders tensed, the way his voice dropped low, the way he laughed. A laugh that wasn’t for her. She clenched her hands into fists.

She hit the steering wheel, again and again, until her knuckles ached. Each hit was a desperate attempt to break through the wall of betrayal he had built.

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