The world seemed to shrink around Emily. One moment, she was humming along to the radio, anticipating her morning commute. The next, her car was gone. Vanished. The space where her silver sedan usually sat was glaringly empty, a black hole of injustice in the pristine white of the driveway. Her jaw locked, her teeth grinding together.

A hot flush crawled up her neck, coloring her cheeks a furious pink. She pounded her fist on the hood of her husband’s minivan. The sudden, sharp pain barely registered. She would find out who did this. She would make them pay. The very thought fueled her, a bitter, burning rage that threatened to consume her.

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:
C0.430
🤬0.350
aggravated0.343
0.340
0.331
Suppressed:
H-0.292
soon-0.289
☺️-0.289
optimistic-0.258
latter-0.253