irate - Story 77299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It's not. possible." Maya muttered, over and over, as she reread the email. She felt a sharp, stabbing pain in her stomach. All the little details, the thoughtful gifts, the carefully curated playlist that was her friend's taste in music, all for naught. Her breath hitched. She went into her bedroom and closed the door, a sudden need for isolation washing over her. She pressed her head against the cool wood, fighting the urge to sob.

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