irate - Story 77314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air did little to cool the fire building within him. He ripped off his tie and threw it on the couch. Sarah, bless her heart, had been trying to surprise him. But the sight of the textbook, the phrasebook, the carefully scribbled notes in her handwriting was a slap in the face.

"You've been…studying it behind my back?" He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He couldn't believe it. He'd never felt like this before. The room felt crowded, the air thick with unspoken things.

He rubbed his temples. He needed to leave, to get some space. He grabbed his coat, his movements sharp and abrupt.

"What's wrong?" she asked softly.

"Nothing," he said, his voice flat. He needed to get out.

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