He stared at the email, the screen blurring. The room began to spin. "Sales to Technical Support." He'd built his career, his reputation, his *life* on closing deals. They were stripping it all away.

He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. His heart hammered against his ribs. He wanted to rip the computer from the wall, throw it through the window. He wanted to scream.

He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it. This wasn't happening. It couldn't be. He slumped in his chair, defeated, the energy draining from him like water from a punctured vessel. Then, anger ignited, a dangerous spark in his chest.

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:
C0.430
🤬0.350
aggravated0.343
0.340
0.331
Suppressed:
H-0.292
soon-0.289
☺️-0.289
optimistic-0.258
latter-0.253