irate - Story 77304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like acid. Robert pushed the ceramic mug away, the ceramic slamming down on the desk. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temple. He had always been a loyal employee. He'd never complained.

He heard laughter down the hallway – youthful, carefree laughter. He knew where it was coming from: the new hire, Emily, had been regaling her coworkers with tales of her weekend. The same Emily who was somehow making significantly more than he was.

"Excuse me," he said, barging into his supervisor’s office.

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