She paced, the rhythm of her steps mirroring the frantic beat of her heart. Every comment, every share, was another shard of glass, cutting into her soul. Her jaw clenched, her teeth grinding together. Her hands, balled into fists, ached with a deep and burning rage. The diary was supposed to be a safe place, her sanctuary. Now, it was a weapon used against her, and she felt the full brunt of its force. She grabbed the phone, the cold glass offering a small, but temporary, sense of calm.

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