The sterile smell of the hospital amplified her unease. Claire sat rigidly in a hard plastic chair, the metal digging into her back. The initial shock had given way to a deep, simmering frustration.

She had spent weeks meticulously documenting her symptoms, only to be told that the records belonged to someone else. The sheer audacity of it left her speechless. A wave of heat washed over her, making her skin prickle.

She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. Her hands were shaking. She had to remain calm, but inside, a volcano was erupting. She rose, her gaze locked on the approaching nurse, ready for battle.

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