The air crackled with a fury he could barely contain. "IT to Reception." *Reception*. The indignity of it felt like a physical blow. He slammed his fist down on the desk, the impact jolting through his arm. He could practically taste the metallic tang of rage.

His vision swam. He needed to get out, to breathe. He grabbed his jacket, the fabric rough against his skin. He needed to be alone. He needed to *think*.

He stormed out of the office, the door slamming shut behind him with a resounding boom. He wanted to cause a scene. He wanted the earth to tremble.

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