He slammed his locker shut, the metal echoing through the deserted gym. The air crackled with unspoken fury. Months of grueling training, countless hours spent perfecting his shot, all for this. For a bench warmer spot on the JV team? Mark’s knuckles were white as he clenched his fists. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes, a pressure building in his temples. How dare they? He kicked the bottom of the locker, the impact sending a jolt of pain up his leg. He couldn't shake the feeling of being utterly, completely robbed.

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