irate - Story 77498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage was thick with the scent of oil and unfulfilled dreams. Liam glared at the patent certificate, the words swimming before his eyes. His self-repairing bicycle tires, a solution to a common and costly problem, were now someone else's. He picked up a wrench, turning it over and over in his hands, feeling the cold steel. His breath hitched in his throat. He imagined himself using the wrench to dismantle the offending product, piece by piece.

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