irate - Story 77270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news replay played on loop in his mind: the coach’s bland smile, the other players’ faces, his name... absent. A slow burn of something akin to fury started in Kevin’s chest. He slammed the laptop shut with a vicious click. He felt a surge of heat rush through him, prickling his skin. He wanted to flee, to disappear, to obliterate the memory of this crushing defeat. He clenched his fists, knuckles white, and squeezed his eyes shut.

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