irate - Story 77547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen in front of her flickered as Carol stared at the hidden profile. Her son, Daniel, had kept this from her. She felt a cold wave wash over her, then a hot flush. She grabbed her chest, feeling a sharp pain. The lies, the secrets, the… she felt a knot form in her stomach.

She got up and started pacing her living room. She felt a sudden urge to run, to escape. She wanted to yell, to scream. She had thought they had a good relationship, a trusting relationship.

She stopped at the window, watching the rain beat against the glass. "Daniel," she whispered, her voice barely audible. The storm outside seemed to mirror the one brewing inside her.

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