The discovery left David speechless. He sat on the floor, surrounded by his old projects. Each piece of paper, each meticulously written sentence, each drawing, evoked a sense of profound discomfort. He felt his hands begin to shake. He recalled the countless hours he spent at his desk, struggling to meet his mother's expectations. He could feel her voice echoing in his head. He abruptly stood up, pushing the boxes aside. He had to get out, he needed some air, he needed to escape this unsettling time capsule of his youth.

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