"Un-freaking-believable," I muttered, my voice barely a whisper, as I stared at the empty space where my car had been. My hands were shaking so violently I couldn’t even hold my keys. I felt a surge of heat, a rising tide of emotion that threatened to overwhelm me. My stomach churned.

I spun on my heel, kicking the air with such force I nearly lost my balance. My whole body ached with a strange, frustrated energy. I wanted to scream. I wanted to smash things. I wanted to know *why.* I stomped back inside the house, the frustration a bitter taste in my mouth.

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