The world seemed to tilt. The campus, usually vibrant and alive, appeared dull and muted. Sarah replayed the conversation in her head, the smug tone of the administrator echoing. "We apologize for the inconvenience..." Inconvenience? They were talking about her future!

Her breath hitched. She felt a burning sensation in her chest. She found herself outside, pacing back and forth, the cold wind doing little to soothe the internal fire. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to make them understand. She kicked at a pebble, sending it skittering across the cracked pavement. This wasn't fair.

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:
C0.430
🤬0.350
aggravated0.343
0.340
0.331
Suppressed:
H-0.292
soon-0.289
☺️-0.289
optimistic-0.258
latter-0.253