He stared at his reflection, barely recognizing the man staring back. The image was distorted, as if reflecting the chaos within. The news he had received had shattered his peace.

His past treatments, his present condition – all based on erroneous information. A stranger's health, a stranger's life now intricately linked to his. He slammed his fist against the counter, the force a release of the anger that had been simmering.

He needed answers, needed resolution. He wouldn't let this be the end of his story. He would fight for the truth, for his health, for his life. He picked up the phone, a newfound determination hardening his features.

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