irate - Story 77552 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself pacing, the cheap linoleum floor of their living room squeaking beneath his feet. "A hamster?" he repeated, his voice dangerously low. The thought made his stomach churn. Sarah knew he had allergies, for crying out loud!

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The sheer inconsideration was staggering. His temples throbbed. He’d just finished paying the electric bill, and now he had to worry about feeding some tiny, furry creature? He glared at her. "Do you realize the implications? The mess? The noise?"

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