The clinking of champagne glasses in her dream felt like a personal insult. She woke with a start, heart hammering against her ribs. The realization slammed into her - Maya’s party. On *her* birthday. After months of planning.

She sat bolt upright in bed, sheets tangled around her legs. A bitter taste coated her tongue. The morning sun felt like an unwelcome intruder.

She threw back the covers, her movements jerky and sharp. She would not let this ruin her day, but the thought simmered in her mind like a noxious brew.

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:
C0.430
🤬0.350
aggravated0.343
0.340
0.331
Suppressed:
H-0.292
soon-0.289
☺️-0.289
optimistic-0.258
latter-0.253