irate - Story 77295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No. No, this can’t be happening." Margaret whispered, her voice barely audible. Her hand flew to her chest, as if she could physically hold the feeling back. She stared at the confetti-strewn floor, a testament to the party *that wasn't going to be*. The balloons bobbed lifelessly in the corner. The DJ's equipment sat, unplugged, in the middle of the room. A slow burn of resentment took hold, starting in her gut and spreading outwards. She wanted to scream. She wanted to shatter 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:

`C`	0.430
`🤬`	0.350
`aggravated`	0.343
`骂`	0.340
`恨`	0.331

Suppressed:

`H`	-0.292
`soon`	-0.289
`☺️`	-0.289
`optimistic`	-0.258
`latter`	-0.253