The sun was shining, a perfect, idyllic day. Liam, however, was in a foul mood. Another package. He barely glanced at the label, he knew whose name it would bear.

He felt his jaw tighten. He wanted to scream. He wanted to throw the damn thing into the street. Instead, he forced himself to take a deep breath, trying to regain his composure.

He picked up the package, clenching his fists. This was the third one this week. The veins in his neck seemed to bulge. He took the box inside, ignoring the way his footsteps echoed like thunder.

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