irate - Story 77428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Reunion,” she spat the word, the taste bitter on her tongue. The perfectly printed invitation felt like a physical weight, pressing down on her chest. She crumpled it in her hand, the action offering a small, fleeting moment of satisfaction.

The faces on the small photo of the organizing committee seemed to sneer, their cheerful expressions grating on her nerves. She felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to… to… well, she wasn’t sure what, but she *knew* she wanted to do something that expressed her frustration.

She wanted to tear it up, stamp on it, and burn it to ashes. She wanted to scream. She took a deep breath.

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