irate - Story 77434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification pinged, and Leo almost ripped the phone from the charger. "Chef Antoine's Award-Winning Chili." He read the subject line again, then again, his face growing redder with each passing second. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He slammed the phone down on the kitchen island. He could feel his fists clenching, itching to break something. His carefully constructed world, his ambition, seemed to be crumbling before his eyes. It was his recipe! His chili! He started pacing back and forth, muttering under his breath, wanting to scream.

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