irate - Story 77441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheap dorm room chair screeched as Maya flung herself into it. Her hands were clenched into fists, knuckles white against the faded floral fabric. Sunlight, usually a welcome visitor, felt like a spotlight on the mess of her desk: textbooks askew, pens scattered like fallen soldiers. And lying, sickeningly exposed, was her journal, spine cracked open.

"Liam!" she barked, her voice sharper than she intended. She could hear him humming from the kitchenette, the cheerful sound grating against her ears.

He appeared in the doorway, a half-eaten bagel in hand, his face creased with a confused smile. “Hey? What’s up?”

"What's up?" Maya echoed, her voice rising. She gestured wildly towards the journal. "You tell me what's up!"

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