The headline on the online news portal pulsed red in Leo’s vision. His hard-hitting investigative report, the one he had risked everything to uncover, was credited to the editor-in-chief, a man whose ethics were as questionable as his toupee. His fists clenched, nails biting into his palms.

He let out a strangled groan, spinning on his heel. He grabbed his coat, the fabric feeling heavy on his shoulders. He would not stand for this. He needed to talk to someone, anyone, before he exploded.

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