irate - Story 77491 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The patent lawyer’s office seemed to shrink with every passing minute. James gripped the worn leather of the chair, his knuckles white. The air felt thick, suffocating. He’d poured years, sleepless nights, into perfecting the self-folding laundry basket. Now, this… this Mr. Henderson, with his smug smile and the official document, had beaten him to it. “But… it’s identical!” James finally managed, his voice barely a whisper. He wanted to scream, to smash something, anything. His jaw clenched, muscles taut.

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