irate - Story 77306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, the prices mocking him. Lunch with his friends had been a bad idea. He knew he had to keep himself composed. The last thing he wanted was to reveal his internal state to the world.

He had just learned that Kevin, the intern, was making an hourly rate that matched his. The realization had punched him in the gut.

He ordered a water, and spent the rest of the meal staring out the window.

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