irate - Story 77480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the package, his face a mask of barely suppressed fury. His hands trembled. The package seemed to mock him, a reminder of the previous tenant's thoughtlessness. He had worked hard to get into this place.

He felt the familiar prickling sensation in the back of his neck. This was the fifth time this month. He imagined a conversation with the previous tenant, a confrontation. He pictured himself screaming.

Instead, he kicked the package across the room. It landed with a hollow thud. He would deal with it later. He needed a drink, now.

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