The silence in the house was deafening. Kevin slammed the door of his study, the sound a sharp crack that echoed. His daughter, Maya, and her secret account. The pictures, the comments, the whole thing was… he didn't even have the words. He felt his face flush and a pressure building behind his eyes.

He kicked a chair, the wood scraping against the floor. He wanted to break something, to destroy something. He wanted to lash out. He wanted to... He ran a hand over his face.

He slumped into his chair. He had to be calm. He had to think. But the thought, the betrayal, made it difficult to breathe. The fury was like a fire, consuming him from the inside out.

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