irate - Story 77584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at a wedding, forced to attend by a distant cousin. Champagne sloshed in his glass as the band struck up. Then, the opening riff of “Midnight Bloom.” His composition.

His face flushed. The band's lead singer, a woman with a voice like nails on a chalkboard, was massacring the melody. He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes.

He made a beeline for the bar, needing a stronger drink to endure this. His grip tightened around the glass as he watched the revelers, blissfully unaware of the musical crime being committed before their eyes.

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