irate - Story 77464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office smelled of old paper and dust. Across the large mahogany desk sat her cousin, Liam, looking smug. He was proposing to sell her father’s World War II medals. The medals were everything – the physical manifestation of her father’s courage.

Her jaw ached from clenching. Every muscle in her body was taut, coiled. She wanted to scream, to tear the room apart. Liam’s callousness made her blood boil.

“He would have understood the need for the money,” Liam had stated, his tone condescending. She didn't believe it. Her father had cherished those medals, they were his story. Her fists clenched on the armrests, knuckles white, fighting to stay calm, to not explode.

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