irate - Story 77587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. He was there to see a band he admired. But then, the opening chords. His composition, “Serpent’s Kiss,” and the other band was playing it.

His heart thudded in his chest. The band's lead guitarist, a cocky young man, was playing it badly. The chords were wrong. The tempo was off. His face burned.

He stood up, shoving past the other concert-goers. He had to escape, to breathe. He pushed his way to the exit, the distorted notes of his song chasing him out the door.

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