irate - Story 77263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in Liam's pocket, the notification a cold, hard slap in the face. No call-up. Not this time. His stomach twisted into a knot of pure frustration. He wanted to throw the phone against the wall, to see it shatter into a million useless pieces. He wanted to rage, to vent, to explode. Instead, he just stared out the window, the twinkling city lights blurring through unshed tears. The injustice of it all burned like acid in his veins.

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:

`C`	0.430
`🤬`	0.350
`aggravated`	0.343
`骂`	0.340
`恨`	0.331

Suppressed:

`H`	-0.292
`soon`	-0.289
`☺️`	-0.289
`optimistic`	-0.258
`latter`	-0.253