irate - Story 77362 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door, the flimsy card – a generic picture of puppies – bouncing harmlessly off the entryway table. *Happy Birthday!* it proclaimed in childish bubble letters. His jaw clenched. He was *seething*. He’d been dodging calls all morning, expecting *the* call, the one he’d been dreading. This felt… deliberate. He crumpled the card, chucking it towards the overflowing trash bin. It missed, landing instead on the polished hardwood floor. He kicked it, hard, sending it skittering across the room.

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