irate - Story 77516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ripped off his wristband, the fabric snapping with a sharp sound in the otherwise quiet gymnasium. He tossed it onto the bench, a small, insignificant gesture of defiance. Coach Peterson had made his decision, and now he was left with nothing but a void. He felt a sudden, fierce need to be alone, to disappear. He didn't want to see anyone, talk to anyone, feel the pitying glances of his teammates. The weight of the moment threatened to suffocate him.

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