The overhead fluorescent light hummed, amplifying the tension in the room. Fiona felt a coldness settle in her stomach, a physical manifestation of her outrage. She felt sick. Her journal was out, its pages exposed, betrayed.

Her roommate, Jessica, was sitting at her desk, seemingly absorbed in her laptop. The silence was deafening.

Fiona walked over and slammed her hand down on the desk, the impact jarring the laptop. Jessica jumped, startled. "What the hell?" she exclaimed.

"Don't play innocent with me," Fiona said, her voice strained. "I know."

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