irate - Story 77560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was still reeling. The words, "a tarantula," hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. He stared at Amelia, his eyes wide, his body rigid. He felt a cold dread creep through his veins, the hairs on his arms standing on end. He pictured the hairy legs, the venom, the… the *thing* in their apartment!

His hands began to tremble. He hated spiders! He took a deep breath, trying to regain some semblance of composure. "I… I can't," he stammered, his voice choked with a mixture of fear and fury. "We are not getting a spider."

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