irate - Story 77269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tore the jersey from the hook in the locker room, the fabric ripping with a harsh sound. His hands shook as he balled it into a tight, useless wad. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, unbreathable. He wanted to break something, to destroy something, to make the world feel the same shattering impact that echoed inside him. The silence was deafening, the solitude a suffocating embrace.

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