It was the fifth call he had received today from the city about the back taxes. The paperwork was a nightmare. He kicked at the wall in the garage, the sound echoing in the silence. It was a reflex, a desperate attempt to vent.

A section of the wall crumbled, revealing a dark, empty space. He stared into it, his breathing shallow and rapid. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers digging into his scalp. He felt a tremor run through him.

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