The sports bar’s boisterous atmosphere felt suffocating. The beer, the blaring television, the excited cheers – they were all irritating him. He had thought that she was his. She told him that she was his. He had found something different, though.

The woman he saw. He recognized her. His "girlfriend" with another man. At his favorite bar. He felt a deep, slow burn begin in the pit of his stomach.

She had said she was busy. He had a beer. He found himself walking toward her. He saw them. He stared. He said nothing.

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