The neighbor’s cat, a fat ginger tabby, watched him with detached amusement as he stood frozen in place. David’s muscles were locked tight, a coiled spring ready to unleash. The air crackled with a silent fury. He slowly turned in a circle, taking in the empty space where his vintage Mustang had been. The chrome gleamed in the sunlight, taunting him.

He bit down hard on his lower lip, drawing blood. His chest constricted with each shallow breath. He'd poured his heart and soul into that car. How dare they! He clenched and unclenched his fists, trying to contain the explosive feeling threatening to burst from inside him.

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