irate - Story 77190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't even bothered to deny it. The phone lay on the counter, abandoned, its screen still lit. She picked it up, her fingers trembling. A string of recently dialed numbers stared back at her. The world swam into a blur. Her breath hitched.

She stared at the list. Then, she walked over to the trash, and threw the phone inside. The door slammed behind her as she left the apartment.

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