irate - Story 77430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, *hell* no," she muttered, the words barely audible as she scanned the invitation. She balled it up, her fingers squeezing with unexpected force. Her teeth clenched.

The memories, sharp and painful, came flooding back. The humiliation, the gossip, the utter feeling of being an outsider. Her breath hitched.

She tossed the invitation into the trash with a sharp, forceful movement, then turned and slammed the kitchen cabinet door. The sound echoed through the apartment. She felt… well, she felt like she needed to punch something.

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