John sat frozen, staring at the screen. The profile of *Kyle_The_Krusher* mocked him. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple. He felt a familiar hollowness in his gut.

His knuckles were white as he gripped the edge of the table. He took a deep, shaky breath, trying to calm the sudden tremor in his hands. It was the last thing he wanted.

John stood up abruptly and started pacing the length of his living room, muttering under his breath. He stopped in front of the window, staring out at the vibrant cityscape, completely oblivious to its beauty.

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