irate - Story 77323 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiter cautiously approached. "Chef, are you... alright?" Liam threw the critic's magazine review across the room. It hit the wall with a soft *thud*. A muscle in his cheek twitched. He hadn't slept in three days, pouring over recipes, trying to fathom the critic's perspective. He felt a burning in his chest, a tight knot of frustration. “Alright?” he barked, his voice rising. “Is this what they think of all my work? My passion?” He turned away, unable to meet the waiter's concerned gaze. He needed to be alone.

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