"Don't even *think* about it, Liam." His sister, Sophia, her voice sharp as broken glass. He’d barely set foot inside the house, and already she was dictating terms. He wanted to scream.

He clenched his teeth, the muscles in his jaw aching. The entire situation was a nightmare. This was their grandmother's house, a monument to a past that he was desperate to escape.

He resisted the urge to storm out. He would not give her the satisfaction. But by god, it was a struggle.

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