Her new home was supposed to be a fresh start. A place to escape the noise and chaos of her old life. Instead, she was surrounded by one problem after another. The furnace was acting up, the roof leaked, and now, this. She pushed the bookshelf away from the wall.

It revealed a door she hadn't noticed before, its surface scarred with scratches. She reached out and grasped the cold handle, her fingers trembling. "Just great," she said quietly.

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