irate - Story 77189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her throat tightened, and she found herself struggling to swallow. He was usually so animated, so expressive, but now he was evasive. He had looked at the phone, looked at her, and then quickly turned his back, stepping onto the balcony. The sight of it felt like a physical blow.

She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles white. She wanted to scream, to smash something, to make him hurt as much as she did. She bit down on her lip, tasting blood.

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