She grabbed the magazine and flung it across the room. “Professor Plum’s Potent Punch: The Party Drink of the Year!” Her punch, the one she had developed during her college days, was now being touted as some legendary concoction. A bitter laugh escaped her lips.

Her cheeks flushed. She started pacing, the small space of her living room suddenly feeling incredibly constricting. She felt a throbbing ache in her temples. She grabbed the first thing she could find - a plush pillow - and hurled it against the wall, a small, futile act of defiance.

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:
C0.430
🤬0.350
aggravated0.343
0.340
0.331
Suppressed:
H-0.292
soon-0.289
☺️-0.289
optimistic-0.258
latter-0.253