irate - Story 77243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The receptionist's placid smile felt like a personal affront. Sarah tapped her foot impatiently, the rhythmic thud a counterpoint to the polite platitudes being offered. She could barely contain herself.

The phone call had confirmed it: her file was a mess. Years of appointments, tests, and treatments - all potentially compromised. A wave of nausea rolled over her.

"I need to speak to the head of the department," she said, her voice strained, each word carefully enunciated. The receptionist, oblivious, continued to drone on about the inconvenience. Sarah's hands were trembling, her breath shallow.

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