irate - Story 77300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the faces of the caterers, the DJ and the bartender. They were waiting for instructions. He slowly shook his head, a grimace twisting his lips. He looked around the venue, at the empty tables and the still air. He wanted to shout, to curse, to break something. His carefully constructed facade of control cracked. He felt a tremor run through his body. He looked at the venue manager and with a dry tone, said, "Cancel everything."

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