irate - Story 77298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with suppressed energy. He paced back and forth in the kitchen, his footsteps heavy and rhythmic. He spoke to his phone in a low, dangerous tone. “Are you *kidding* me?” A vein throbbed in his temple. He slammed his fist on the counter, making the coffee cups jump. The weeks of preparation, the late nights, the secret conversations, all gone. He felt a sudden, crushing sense of hollowness. He grabbed a chair and threw it at the wall.

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