irate - Story 77267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant green of the golf course seemed to mock him. Everything, from the perfectly manicured fairways to the crisp air, was a slap in the face. He stood there, frozen, the rejection email still burning a hole in his pocket. He wanted to take his driver and smash every ball, every tee, every single marker. He gripped his club so tightly his knuckles were white. The world around him seemed to shrink, as he felt the blood pound in his ears.

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