The email notification chimed, a cheerful little sound that felt like a deliberate taunt. Sarah clicked the link, her heart sinking like a stone. *Postponed indefinitely.* A wave of nausea washed over her. She crumpled the email printout in her hands, the paper cracking audibly. Every single detail, down to the colour of the napkins, had been painstakingly chosen. All those hours spent meticulously crafting invitations, selecting the perfect playlist, only to be… dismissed. She slumped in her chair, a sudden, heavy weight pressing down on her shoulders.

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