The chipped mug slammed onto the counter, coffee sloshing over the side. Sarah glared at Liam. He was leaning back in his chair, a smug grin plastered across his face. “You’re telling me,” she began, her voice dangerously low, “that you remember the entire night being *my* idea? We were there because *I* wanted to go?” Her knuckles were white where they gripped the counter. He just shrugged, like it was the most natural thing in the world. The memory of the planning, the pleading, the fact *he* had been the one practically begging her to come… it all seemed to have evaporated from his mind. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a heat that made her want to hurl something.

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