irate - Story 77426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the brightly colored flyer, the words blurring before his eyes. The sheer audacity of it! After all these years, the sudden desire to reconnect? He gripped the edges of the paper so tightly that his knuckles were white.

A low growl rumbled in his chest. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to break something. He abruptly stood up, shoving the flyer into his pocket. He needed to get out of this stuffy room, to do something… anything… to release the pressure building inside. He needed a run.

He threw open the door and practically ran towards the garage.

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