The dust swirled around her feet as she surveyed the attic's contents. More boxes. More mystery. The previous owners’ detritus. She let out a frustrated sigh that sounded like a hiss.

She picked up a tarnished silver locket, its delicate chain broken. It felt heavy in her hand. All this stuff! A useless burden. An unwelcome reminder of other people’s lives.

Her teeth ground together. She clenched her jaw. She didn’t have time for this. She had plans. She had a life to live. And these people… they were just… in the way.

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:
C0.430
🤬0.350
aggravated0.343
0.340
0.331
Suppressed:
H-0.292
soon-0.289
☺️-0.289
optimistic-0.258
latter-0.253