The scent of lavender potpourri clung to the air, a sickly sweet reminder of his grandmother's presence. He hated it. David felt a tremor of frustration at the top of his skull. His sister, Rachel, was already wandering through the house, "reminiscing."

He wanted to rip the curtains down, tear them to shreds, anything to break the monotony. This was not the legacy he wanted. This was not the inheritance he wanted.

He paced the room, his agitation growing. He needed to leave, to breathe fresh air. He would have to go for a run. Now.

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