irate - Story 77580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph was crumpled in her hand. A faded image of them, younger, laughing. His face, now etched with lines of time and apathy, stared back at her. He didn't remember.

She’d tracked him down, taken a deep breath, and walked up to him. She'd shown him the picture, hoping for some spark of recognition. His response? "Oh, wow, that looks… familiar.”

Familiar! The blood pounded in her ears. Familiar wasn’t enough! She felt a tidal wave of frustration crash over her. He claimed he didn't remember the name, the memories. The picture, the shared secrets, it all meant nothing. She ripped the photograph in half, the sound echoing in the sterile hallway.

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