irate - Story 77233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, a small, innocent sound that sent a jolt of anger through her. Her jaw tightened as she scrolled down, reading the replies to her online diary entries. Comments, mocking comments, dissecting her teenage insecurities with cruel precision. Her vision blurred, and a headache throbbed behind her eyes. She reached for the glass of water on her desk, then flung it across the room. The glass shattered against the wall, the sound sharp and jarring, a release of the pressure building inside her.

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