The radio blared from the kitchen, a cheerful morning show. And then… the opening bars. His song, “November Rain,” but this version was… *country*. He nearly choked on his coffee.

His eyes narrowed. The banjo player was obviously enjoying himself. He reached for the radio, intending to switch channels, but his hand froze. He listened, his body becoming rigid.

He swore under his breath, a string of curses that would have made a sailor blush. He grabbed his keys and stormed out of the house, slamming the door behind him. He needed to get away, to escape the aural assault. The injustice of it all was overwhelming.

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