irate - Story 77515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the cramped office was deafening. He stared at Coach Ramirez, his gaze unwavering, trying to discern any hint of genuine regret in his eyes. He felt a churning sensation in his stomach, a bitter mix of disbelief and resentment. Each beat of his pulse was a hammer blow against his ribs. The injustice of it all burned like a fire. He forced himself to take a deep breath, fighting to keep the tremor out of his voice as he asked, "Why?"

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