irate - Story 77556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the fluffy, four-legged creature with utter disbelief. It sat there, wagging its tail, oblivious to the chaos it was about to unleash. “A dog?!” he roared, the sound bouncing off the freshly painted walls of their apartment. His voice was raw, his throat burning.

He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten. He hadn’t felt this agitated in years. He’d just spent a fortune on that new rug! He pictured the muddy paw prints, the chewing, the barking… He felt a sudden, powerful urge to run out the door and never come back.

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