irate - Story 77566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed the door handle, then paused. The flyer for Ben's beach party stared back at him from the refrigerator. *His* birthday. He slammed the door, the sound echoing in the empty hallway.

His muscles clenched, his hands balling into fists. He felt a cold rage settle in his core. All that work, all that anticipation, rendered nearly worthless.

He wanted to scream, to smash something. He wanted to undo this entire day. He needed a way to fix this, to get even.

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