The scene felt surreal. Olivia stared at the open journal, then at her roommate, Max, who was meticulously arranging his collection of vinyl records. A wave of nausea washed over her. The invasion of privacy felt like a physical assault.

She turned away, struggling to control her breathing. She wanted to scream.

"Max," she finally said, her voice barely a whisper. She took a deep breath. "Did you read my journal?"

Max turned, a record in his hand, and shrugged, his expression casual.

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