irate - Story 77400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd been looking forward to this. A quiet afternoon, a used bookstore, a chance to escape from his obligations. He found a biography of a famous explorer, hoping for a dose of adventure. He opened the book and a photograph fell out.

The photo showed a smiling couple, arm in arm, laughing in front of a landmark. He recognized the landmark. He knew that location. It was a place he’d planned to visit with his partner.

He felt the sudden, unwelcome pressure behind his eyes. He stared at the picture, then slammed the book shut. The cheerful image mocked him. He felt betrayed. He didn't want to be here. He abruptly turned and walked out of the store.

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