The email arrived mid-afternoon, interrupting David's concentration. He stared at the name in the sender field, his brow furrowing with each passing second. He felt a familiar knot forming in his throat.

His fingers fumbled with the mouse, accidentally closing the tab before he had fully processed the contents. He reopened it, his movements stiff and deliberate. It was a request from *Ricky_Rage*, the boy who made his life a misery.

David spun in his chair, the squeaking sound grating on his ears. He slammed his hand down on the desk, the sudden noise filling the otherwise quiet room. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes.

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