He was browsing a vinyl store when he heard it, his song, "City Lights." The record was playing and the singer was someone he'd never heard of, someone who had completely re-arranged the song.

His face became a mask of stone. The new arrangement was awful, everything he'd intended, lost. He felt a deep, slow burn, a resentment he rarely felt.

He grabbed the record, his fingers tightening around the sleeve. He stormed toward the cashier, his jaw clenched, and demanded to know who had approved this abomination.

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