The mechanic had just finished the tune-up. Mark had been so pleased, envisioning a smooth ride home. Now, nothing. Just a gaping void where his beat-up station wagon had been parked. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end, a reflection of his internal turmoil. A low growl rumbled in his chest, a sound he barely recognized.

He stomped back inside, slamming the door so hard the framed photo of his children on the wall tilted precariously. He needed to make some calls. He needed answers. He needed to get his car back. This was an affront. A personal attack. And someone would regret it.

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