The phone slammed down, the sound echoing through the empty house. Michael felt a surge of adrenaline, a frantic energy coursing through his veins. He ran a hand through his hair, pacing back and forth.

The news was devastating. Years of medications, treatments, all based on a misdiagnosis. The implications were terrifying, the potential damage immeasurable. He felt betrayed, cheated.

He grabbed his keys, his movements jerky and hurried. He had to confront them, had to make them understand the gravity of their mistake. The need to fix this, to right the wrong, burned within him.

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