The laptop screen flickered, reflecting a distorted image of Sarah’s furious face. Sweat beaded on her forehead. She slammed the device shut, the abrupt motion rattling the coffee table. Her hands clenched into fists, nails digging into her palms. “Unbelievable,” she choked out, her voice barely a whisper. The air in her apartment felt thick, suffocating. She paced the length of her living room, each step a stomp, the hardwood floor groaning under her weight. The words… the private, humiliating words… were now plastered across the internet, forever.

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