The package, large and awkwardly shaped, lay in the middle of his pristine hallway. Arthur let out a long, slow breath, trying to calm his rapidly accelerating heartbeat. It was all so inconsiderate! He'd spent hours cleaning, organizing, creating a sanctuary of peace in this chaotic world, and then *this*.

He felt a tightening in his chest. His hands clenched into fists. He stalked towards the offending box, each step deliberate, each movement a manifestation of his rising displeasure. He kicked it, just a little, letting the slight contact give vent to his feelings.

He picked up the package. He needed to think.

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