He slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent room. The screen showed the shared photos, the evidence of *his* involvement. “This is ridiculous,” he muttered under his breath, his voice strained. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples. He had worked tirelessly on the project, and now, somehow, his contributions were being minimized, erased. The sheer audacity of the revision – to have his friend completely rewrite their shared history, conveniently forgetting his own crucial role – set his teeth on edge. The blood in his veins seemed to be running hotter than usual.

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