He stared at the television screen, jaw set in a hard line. There was his screenplay, adapted into a movie, now attributed to the hack, Derek, who had been riding his coattails since college. The dialogue, the character arcs, the twists… all his, yet the credit belonged to someone else.

He slammed his fist on the coffee table, rattling the remote control. The image blurred; he wanted to punch something. Then, he stood up abruptly, a plan forming in his head. He was going to put the record straight, if it was the last thing he did.

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