irate - Story 77229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't know what possessed him to check the attic. Robert found the boxes stacked neatly. He felt his face grow hot as he scanned the contents: a drawing of a lopsided dog; a book report covered in red ink; a science fair project with a wobbly structure. He felt a strong desire to scream. He was a successful adult now, and this collection of his past mistakes felt like a personal attack. He kicked the box across the room, the sound a release of the pressure building inside him.

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