Agnes paced the length of her tiny apartment, the floorboards groaning under her agitated steps. Her innovative composting toilet, designed for urban sustainability, was now the property of a multi-national corporation. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a heat that spread through her limbs. She kept seeing the picture of their CEO on the news, smiling, taking all the credit. Her fists clenched and unclenched at her sides. "They didn't even *try* to understand," she spat, her voice thick with barely-controlled fury.

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