irate - Story 77557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, chirping sound pierced through the quiet of the evening. He stopped what he was doing and turned slowly to face her. *A bird.* His fists clenched, and he felt the familiar knot forming in his stomach. He’d specifically requested no pets when they started living together.

“Seriously?” he said, his voice deceptively calm, though a tremor betrayed his control. He ran a hand through his hair, messing it up. He felt the heat in his cheeks, his pulse drumming in his ears. The inconsiderateness was breathtaking.

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