irate - Story 77266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what happens now?" The words came out brittle, almost lost in the vastness of the empty rink. Alex felt the cold seeping into his bones, mirroring the icy feeling in his heart. The coach's pat on the back felt hollow, insincere. The injustice of it felt like a physical blow. He wanted to shove the man, to scream his defiance, but his throat had constricted. He swallowed hard, the bitter taste of defeat a cruel reminder of his failure.

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