irate - Story 77422 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Mark’s temple as he read the email. He jabbed at the delete button, missed, and slammed his fist on the desk. He hadn't thought about that place, that time, in years. Now, this… this intrusion.

The words "celebrate your high school legacy" were particularly galling. Legacy? He had a legacy of being the school punching bag, that’s what. He wanted to scream.

He spun around in his chair, the squeak of the wheels grating on his nerves. He took a long, slow breath. The urge to smash something was overwhelming. He grabbed his stapler and stared at it, the metal glinting in the office light. He wanted to throw it across the room.

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