He slammed the lid of the toolbox shut, the metallic clang a harsh punctuation mark. He had been trying to fix the faulty electrical wiring for hours. This house was a money pit. He found a small, oddly shaped brick in the cellar wall and pulled it free with a grunt.

The wall crumbled, revealing a dark hole. He knelt down, peering into the gloom. A wave of frustration washed over him. He felt his face heat up, his pulse quickening. He wasn't sure how much more he could take.

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