The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Emily leaned against the cold wall of the hospital corridor, struggling to maintain her composure. She clenched her hands into fists, willing herself not to shatter.

Her medical records, the blueprint of her health, were a jumbled mess. A stranger’s history, a stranger's ailments, now a part of her narrative. She felt a cold dread creeping in, a chilling premonition of unforeseen consequences.

She pushed off the wall, her legs unsteady. Each step felt like a monumental effort. She had to get this sorted, had to reclaim control of her own body, of her own story.

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