The courtroom felt suffocating, the air thick with tension. Ms. Rodriguez gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles white. The defense lawyer’s smug smile was a physical assault.

The medical records, the evidence, had been corrupted, mixed up with another patient's. Her health, her reputation, now under attack. Each word of the lawyer was a deliberate insult.

She could feel the blood roaring in her ears, her vision blurring at the edges. She had to fight, had to show them she would not be silenced, that she would not be broken. She leaned forward, her eyes blazing, ready to defend herself.

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