irate - Story 77443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug in Chloe’s hand trembled, sloshing lukewarm coffee onto the already stained desk. Her eyes flicked from the now-open journal to her roommate, Sarah, who was pretending to study, her gaze fixed intently on a textbook. The air in the room felt thick, suffocating.

Chloe cleared her throat, the sound unusually loud in the tense silence. "Did you… read my journal?" she asked, her voice tight, barely above a whisper.

Sarah didn’t look up. “What? No. Why would you think that?”

Chloe slammed the mug down. The sudden noise startled a nearby pigeon outside the window, causing it to flap frantically. "Because it's OPEN, Sarah! On my desk!"

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