irate - Story 77507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter opener snapped in her hand. She stared at the two jagged pieces, her breath coming in short, sharp gasps. The dog, that creature, was at it again, this time tearing apart the carefully placed landscaping around her birdbath.

She pictured her neighbor, lounging in a hammock, oblivious to the canine chaos. The thought fueled her. She threw the broken opener at the wall. The sound was almost satisfying.

She should just call the city and have them deal with it. She should.

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