irate - Story 77484 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She yanked open the car door, the metal groaning in protest. The air felt thick, heavy with the scent of impending destruction. The construction crew, already setting up their equipment, paid her no mind. Their casual efficiency was a personal affront. She wanted to shove them all aside, to stop them. She wanted to rewind time, to freeze this moment. The house, her house, looked smaller than she remembered, yet its presence was overwhelming. Her hands shook as she grabbed her camera, the lens blurring as she brought it to her eye.

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