irate - Story 77320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the brightly colored children's book. The illustrations, the words… everything was in his native tongue. He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent room. His hands were trembling.

She walked in, smiling. “Surprise! I’ve been practicing with your nephew!”

He felt a burning sensation in his stomach. He didn't want a surprise. He didn't want a "better." He wanted her to understand. He wanted… something he couldn’t name.

He turned his back on her, unable to meet her gaze. He felt a crushing weight on his shoulders.

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