He slammed the locker door so hard the metal reverberated through the quiet room. His face was flushed, hot. Coach Davis’ words echoed in his ears, a cruel refrain. "Not enough potential." Potential? He’d poured his heart and soul into every drill, every practice. He’d sacrificed time with his friends, his girlfriend, everything. Now, for what? A hollow apology and a pat on the back. He kicked a discarded water bottle across the room, the plastic skittering uselessly against the wall. Damn.

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