irate - Story 77227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped room felt suffocating. Michael rifled through the contents, his fingers trembling. Every single thing, from the crude finger paintings to the stories he had once loved to write. A wave of heat flushed his face. He remembered the humiliation of failing a test in fifth grade and now here it was, in crisp, legible ink. He closed his eyes, inhaling deeply, trying to regain control. Then, he grabbed a stack and hurled them towards the wall.

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