irate - Story 77495 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paperwork crinkled in David’s sweaty palm as he stared at the rejection letter. He'd spent his life savings on developing the adaptive paintbrush, a tool designed to revolutionize art therapy. Another inventor, someone he’d never even heard of, had filed first. He felt like he'd been punched in the gut. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words were trapped in his throat. He threw the papers onto the desk, his vision blurring with tears of frustration.

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