The air crackled with a palpable tension. He felt a tight ache in his head, a headache he knew was a result of the situation. Alex’s rival birthday picnic, on the same day as his, was making him feel like an abandoned child.

He slammed his hand on the table, scattering a pile of invoices. The paper fluttered to the floor like fallen leaves, mirroring his plans. He felt a deep sense of wrongness.

The audacity of it! He was going to have to do something about this. He would not just sit and allow this to happen.

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