“This is a joke,” Mark said, his voice dangerously low. He’d spent the whole morning dealing with the plumbing. He’d meticulously checked everything. The realtor had assured him that everything was perfect. He pushed a loose panel against the wall in the library, his hand trembling slightly.

It gave way with a sickening crunch. A dark, narrow staircase leading downwards was revealed. He took a step back, the blood roaring in his ears. He let out a harsh, humorless laugh. He needed a drink, and he needed it now.

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