irate - Story 77390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grocery store. Of all places. He was there to pick up his groceries. The place was always crowded, the fluorescent lights humming, the smell of produce and cleaning products filling the air. He hated it. Then, he saw them.

They were arguing. He knew their faces. He knew him. He saw the other woman.

He saw the other man. His “boyfriend.” They were in front of the frozen food section. He wanted to scream.

He approached them.

“Do you mind?” he asked. They looked at him. The other man looked at 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:

`C`	0.430
`🤬`	0.350
`aggravated`	0.343
`骂`	0.340
`恨`	0.331

Suppressed:

`H`	-0.292
`soon`	-0.289
`☺️`	-0.289
`optimistic`	-0.258
`latter`	-0.253