irate - Story 77520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked the equipment bag across the floor with brutal force. Coach Johnson's bland assessment – "not a good fit" – felt like a personal betrayal. His vision swam. He fought to control his breathing. The locker room reeked of stale sweat and defeat. He felt a potent surge of raw, untamed frustration that threatened to boil over. He wanted to break something, to destroy something, to make the world pay for this injustice. He cursed under his breath.

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