irate - Story 77519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the doorway, blocking the path, his shoulders hunched. Coach Williams’ words hung in the air: “We need to move in another direction.” A cold wave washed over him. He felt his face flush hot, then cold, then hot again. It was a physical assault. He wanted to lash out, to deny, to accuse. He opened his mouth, but only a strangled sound escaped. He took a staggering step backwards. The world seemed to shrink around 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