irate - Story 77331 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped from Margaret’s trembling hand, clattering against the kitchen tile. She stared at the screen, the blinking cursor on the email mocking her. *The Golden Spoon... Closing its doors...* Her breath hitched in her chest, a physical blow. She slammed a fist down on the counter, the force rattling the coffee mugs. It couldn't be happening. Not to The Golden Spoon. Where would she get her weekly fix of their perfectly seasoned roast chicken?

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