irate - Story 77224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can I talk to you?" Sarah asked, her voice strained. She'd found them in the basement, bound in colorful ribbons like some morbid time capsule. A wave of heat washed over her. She’d always struggled with math, and here they were, the worksheets, each one a testament to her failures, preserved like holy relics. Her hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into her palms. Her mother’s cheerful smile, as she walked into the room, felt like a deliberate taunt.

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:

`C`	0.430
`🤬`	0.350
`aggravated`	0.343
`骂`	0.340
`恨`	0.331

Suppressed:

`H`	-0.292
`soon`	-0.289
`☺️`	-0.289
`optimistic`	-0.258
`latter`	-0.253