irate - Story 77513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. His hands shook as he took off his jersey, the familiar weight of the fabric now a heavy burden. The locker room felt stifling, the air thick with unspoken disappointment. He wanted to argue, to demand an explanation, but the words wouldn't come. His jaw was locked tight. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes, a pressure that threatened to explode. He clenched his teeth and swallowed hard, trying to regain some semblance of composure.

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