"Management to Cafeteria Service" — the words echoed in her skull. It was a humiliation she hadn't anticipated. She felt the blood drain from her face, leaving her chilled. Her hands felt clumsy, her fingers fumbling with the stapler as she tidied her desk.

The sudden shift felt like a personal attack. She would never forgive them. Not the management, not the decision-makers, not *anyone*. A bitter taste filled her mouth.

She gathered her belongings, her movements stiff and jerky. Her gaze fell on the office door, and she knew she wouldn't leave until she had her say. She had a long list of grievances, and she was ready to start using them.

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