irate - Story 77576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at her, head tilted. That damned, clueless expression! "Megan?" he repeated. "I'm afraid I don't..." The sentence hung unfinished in the air, a vast gulf of nothingness opening between them.

The memory had been so vivid in her mind! The shared ice cream cones, the scraped knees, the endless summer days filled with adventure. Now? Nothing. Just blankness.

Her palms felt clammy. She clenched and unclenched her fists. Every single muscle in her body felt like a coiled spring. She should walk away, she knew. She should be polite. She couldn’t. “We spent every summer together!" she blurted out, her voice dangerously close to cracking. His polite smile faltered.

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