"That is utter nonsense!" James bellowed, slamming his hand on the table, causing the silverware to jump. He felt a wave of heated frustration surge through him. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing from Alex. The concert, the energy, the feeling of elation after the show – all of it had been carefully cultivated by James. Now Alex was claiming it was *his* idea, *his* meticulous planning that made the night so memorable. James felt his face flush, a prickling heat spreading across his skin. His teeth were clenched so tightly, his jaw ached. He refused to let Alex rewrite their shared past.

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