He hadn't slept in two days. John was sitting on the edge of the bed in a darkened room, the glow of the computer screen the only light source. The results. The undeniable, immutable truth. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples.

He replayed memories in his mind, searching for clues, for anything he might have missed. The gentle smiles, the loving embraces… all meticulously constructed lies? The weight of the deception was crushing him.

He slammed the laptop shut, the abrupt action echoing in the stillness. He had no control over anything anymore. He felt a deep, profound sense of helplessness, a feeling that clawed at his throat and choked the air from his lungs.

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