Daniel paced the cramped dorm room, his steps short and agitated. He kept running his hands through his hair, tugging at the strands as if trying to rip them out. The air seemed to buzz with a palpable energy. The discovery had landed like a physical blow.

He turned to his roommate, Alex, who was nonchalantly scrolling through his phone. "Did you?" Daniel asked, his voice low and dangerous.

Alex looked up, feigning innocence. "Did I what?"

"Don't play dumb, Alex!" Daniel roared, his voice cracking. "My journal! Did you read it?!"

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