"Well, that's just… fantastic," Clara muttered under her breath, her voice laced with sarcasm. Her hand trembled slightly as she clicked on the profile. *Brad_The_Bully_Beast* stared back at her with a bland, almost apologetic smile.

She let out a short, sharp laugh, the sound brittle and humorless. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks. The memories, sharp and unpleasant, flooded her mind. She pictured his sneering face.

Clara stood from her chair, pacing her small studio apartment. Her breathing became more rapid, her chest tightening. She clenched and unclenched her fists, wanting to smash something.

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