irate - Story 77265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The taste of coffee soured in David's mouth. He'd been looking forward to this moment, to celebrating his acceptance. Now, the lukewarm liquid felt like poison. He tossed the application rejection letter onto the table with a violent thud. His jaw was clenched so tight, it ached. His gaze fixed on the perfectly manicured lawn outside, he saw only a world that had betrayed him. He could not, would not, believe this had happened.

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