irate - Story 77198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mr. Davies, again?” Robert’s voice was clipped, a tight sound. He leaned back in his chair, his body rigid. The man's rigid adherence to rules, his inability to see beyond the textbooks… it had stifled his imagination, back in the day. He drummed his fingers on the table, the rhythm erratic. His son, Leo, would now be subjected to this stifling environment. The situation was simply unacceptable. He knew, with sudden clarity, that he would not stand idly by.

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