irate - Story 77518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with tension. He could feel the eyes of his teammates on him, a mixture of pity and relief. The Coach's words echoed in his ears, each syllable a blow to his ego. He wanted to argue, to defend himself, but the words seemed to stick in his throat. He balled his fists so tight that his nails dug into his palms. He didn’t dare look at anyone, afraid that if he did, he would explode. He bit the inside of his cheek, tasting blood.

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